B.C. Insider: U.S. Indigenous group sues for consultation rights north of the border – The Globe and Mail
September 9, 2025
A B.C. political leader issued a sharp warning to Ottawa last week, telling the federal government it was time to “wake up” to the creeping threat to Canada’s sovereignty from its southern neighbour.
This time, the alarm bells were coming from Clarence Louie, longtime chief of Osoyoos Indian Band and one of Canada’s most influential Indigenous leaders, and the threat he referred to is coming from a U.S. Indigenous group.
Louie was responding to two lawsuits filed last week by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, a Washington State-based Indigenous group.
