No, Your Property Is Not at Risk After the Cowichan Decision – The Tyee

May 20, 2026

An expert public forum concludes ‘we’re all here to stay.’ But Eby still faces big challenges.

Anxiety about the threat to fee simple private property posed by Aboriginal rights is so deep in British Columbia that Green MLA Rob Botterell, Saanich North and the Islands, was able to draw more than 100 people to a mid-afternoon public meeting Saturday, a sunny long-weekend Saturday in the middle of Stanley Cup playoffs.

Yet still they came to a gracious Presbyterian church tucked next to Victoria International Airport: three former provincial attorneys general; a former Green Party leader; Grand Chief Ed John, a key figure in the creation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act; Wendy Grant-John, three times Chief of the Musqueam First Nation; Terry Glavin, award-winning author and weekly columnist for the National Post; and scores more.

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