BC Business Leaders Fall Silent on Relations with First Nations – The Tyee

Jan 16, 2026

Unwarranted panic over court decisions mean Premier David Eby faces lose-lose options in the legislature.

No humiliation is more traumatic for B.C.’s corporate elite than being mocked in international business circles, yet it happened twice in December, both times because of the hot-burning crisis over Indigenous rights in this province and their impact on private property.

So far, however, business leaders have been mute in the face of attacks on recent court rulings and B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, legislation they welcomed just six years ago as a major advance in the economic life of the province. Support for the long-debated bill was so broad in 2019 that it passed the legislature in a rare unanimous vote.

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