Tom Fletcher grew up in the Peace River region and has covered B.C. politics and business as a journalist since 1984. He lives in Victoria.
If there was a single issue in rural B.C. that edged the 2024 provincial election into a near-victory for the upstart Conservatives, it may have been the push by Premier David Eby to legally enshrine “shared decision-making” with indigenous people on Crown land use.
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