Relations between the British Columbia government and First Nations plunged this year as Premier David Eby grappled with how or whether to amend DRIPA, which he once championed.

In December, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Gitxaała and Ehattesaht First Nations, who argued that the province's mining claims system impacts Indigenous rights.

The Business Council of B.C. says its members are worried about the province's shifting position on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act and the uncertainty.

In an open letter to B.C. MLAs, the First Nations Leadership Council said the provincial government would work to 'muster support' for the bill despite their opposition to it.

Premier David Eby said that he was staking his government on the passage of the legislation, but house leader Mike Farnworth says it won't go before the legislature this week.

A political analyst says British Columbia Premier David Eby faces a "moment of real peril" as legislators return to Victoria this week.

First Nations Leadership Council unified in opposition to government suspending sections of DRIPA

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First, B.C. Premier David Eby wanted to amend parts of the Declaration on the Rights...

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A First Nations group says the British Columbia government’s plan to suspend sections of the...

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A First Nations leader in B.C. says Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend portions of...

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BC Premier David Eby’s proposed suspension of key parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) has detonated into a political and legal crisis after a leaked transcript showed Indigenous leaders accusing him of “absolute betrayal,” colonialism, and deliberately fracturing the province’s relationship with First Nations. The nearly 17,000-word transcript covers […]

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British Columbia's government has proposed suspending its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), according to two sources in a meeting.

Invoking the name of the man who stopped the Meech Lake Accord, a First Nations...

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A First Nations leader said proposed amendments to British Columbia’s Declaration on the Rights of...

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British Columbia’s overlapping Indigenous land claims are the product of a 150-year treaty vacuum that governments are only now trying to fill, and the result is a province where roughly 80% of the land is still subject to Indigenous claims and major territories overlap. After the Colony of Vancouver Island was established in 1849, governor […]

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