VICTORIA B.C. – Andrew Weaver, leader of the B.C. Green Party, expressed his best wishes to those celebrating the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, beginning tonight at sundown.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Andrew Weaver and Adam Olsen released the following statement today on the First Nations Leadership Gathering. Weaver, Olsen and Sonia Furstenau attended the two-day gathering in Vancouver.

VICTORIA B.C. – Andrew Weaver, leader of the B.C. Green Party, issued the following statement today in celebration of Canada Day:

In 1996, the British Columbia government recognized the first Monday in August as a statutory holiday celebrating the “pioneers who built the colony of British Columbia into the great province it is.”

I spent last Saturday, National Aboriginal Day, at Centennial Park in Ganges on Salt Spring Island. My family joined a few hundred aboriginal and non-aboriginal people in a rally to protest the development of a luxury home over top of Coast Salish burial cairns on Grace Islet off Salt Spring.

The B.C. Green Party celebrates today with Canada’s aboriginal people.

Aboriginal communities in British Columbia have been thrust into the national spotlight by pipeline proposals, and LNG (liquefied natural gas) and other resource extraction industries. The B.C. Green Party supports Aboriginal efforts to assert and defend their rights that are enshrined in the Constitution.