Bruce Pardy is senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, executive director of Rights Probe and professor of Law at Queen’s University.
Like the proverb says, make yourself into a doormat and someone will walk all over you.
As Bruce Pardy writes in the National Post article, “Eby’s government has been doing everything in its power to champion Aboriginal interests. DRIPA is its mandate. It’s been making covert agreements with specific Aboriginal groups over specific territories. These agreements promise Aboriginal title and/or grant Aboriginal management rights over land use. In April 2024, an agreement with the Haida Council recognized Haida title and jurisdiction over Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the B.C. coast formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. Eby has said that the agreement is a template for what’s possible “in other places in British Columbia, and also in Canada.” He is putting title and control of B.C. into Aboriginal hands.”
Read the full article online: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-virtue-signalling-devotion-to-reconciliation-will-not-end-well