Proposed changes to Heritage Conservation Act expand First Nations decision making on Crown land – Warren Mirko & Geoff Moyse

Warren Mirko is executive-director of the Public Land Use Society; Geoffrey Moyse is a senior lawyer, now in private practice, who served as legal counsel on Aboriginal and Treaty law to the province of B.C., advising six successive governments over more than 30 years.

The government claims it is speeding up decisions and reducing complexity, but its proposed solutions expand the scope of authority to a joint or consent basis with First Nations.

Read the full article online at the Vancouver Sun:

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-proposed-changes-to-heritage-conservation-act-expand-first-nations-decision-making-on-crown-land

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