B.C.’s UNDRIP law was doomed from the start – The Globe and Mail

April 22, 2026

Jody Wilson-Raybould is the former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada. Her forthcoming book is The Inbetween Leader: Cultivating Courage and Unity in a Complex World.

In 2016, when I was the minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, I gave a talk to the Assembly of First Nations that addressed proposals to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) through legislation. My message to the chiefs was clear and unequivocal: “…simplistic approaches, such as adopting the Declaration as being Canadian law, are unworkable and, respectfully, a political distraction to undertaking the hard work to actually implement it.”

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