Geoffrey Moyse, K.C., legal advisor to PLUS, writes in the National Post:
Surely, there will be a time when British Columbians start demanding the government act in the greater public interest
In the 1990s, a B.C. NDP government cabinet minister famously pronounced, “Remember, government can do anything it wants.”
That basic undemocratic ethos is alive today in the present B.C. NDP government headed by Premier David Eby, most particularly on the Aboriginal “reconciliation” agenda. Controversy continues to swirl around what critics refer to as the governments “land back” ideology, which appears firmly rooted in the larger and more ominous ethos of “decolonization.”
For some years now, British Columbia’s non-Aboriginal population have been taunted by two NDP administrations as “colonizers,” “settlers” and “uninvited guests” — language that has even been used in the B.C. legislature by government MLAs.
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