Rights and reconciliation collide in B.C.
4/22/202636 min
A conflict playing out in British Columbia is testing the limits of reconciliation in the province. It’s a fight that involves resource extraction, democracy, political flip-flops, and a test of values. It has set off fears that people may not own their homes and raised the legal prospect that Indigenous groups could veto laws around resource extraction. Others have called this fearmongering, and it has many Indigenous people and leaders asking if the province takes reconciliation seriously.
Rob Shaw, who covers politics for CHEK News and Glacier Media, walks us through how we got here.
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[upbeat music] Hey, everyone. I'm Jamie Poisson. [upbeat music] Today on the show, I want to explore this conflict that's been playing out in British Columbia that is really testing the limits of reconciliation in the province. It's a fight that involves resource extraction, democracy, political flip-flops, and a test of values. It has set off fears that people may not own their homes and the land that they sit on. It's raised the legal prospect that indigenous groups could veto laws around resource extraction. And this fight has many indigenous people and leaders asking if the province takes reconciliation seriously, if they're willing to go beyond land acknowledgments. It all relates back to two court decisions from last year, one about land claims, the other involving a history-making law called the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRIPA. Rob Shaw covers BC politics for CHEK News and Glacier Media, and he's here to walk me through exactly how we got here and what could happen next.
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