Adam Pankratz is a lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business and sits on the board of B.C.’s Public Land Use Society.
Adam writes: As a result of DRIPA, no one in B.C. has any certainty anymore as to who is in charge of the province and, in particular, it’s land. It is even a question as to whether the government can make its own laws anymore without First Nations’ free, prior and informed consent.
This may sound hyperbolic, but it is not, as Article 19 of UNDRIP states that Indigenous peoples must give “free, prior and informed consent” over “legislative measures.” This raises the question of whether DRIPA, or indeed any B.C. law, can be amended without First Nations’ consent.
Read the full article at National Post: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/reconciliation-law-will-be-david-ebys-downfall