David Eby says B.C. First Nations must have priority in consultations with First Nations
Premier David Eby is drawing a line in the sand on the issue of consultations with First Nations in and outside of B.C.
But the federal government will need to weigh in on the issue as well, says Robert Louie, chief of the West Bank First Nation, as a Supreme Court of Canada decision in 2021 that recognized American aboriginal rights in Canada has opened a “Pandoras Box” that could prove to costly, confusing and divisive.
“I think the federal government has to understand the transborder Pandora’s Box that’s open,” Louie told BIV News. “If they haven’t developed a policy, they should be developing a policy immediately to deal with this because this is huge.”