Unplug the Anti-Indigenous Fear Machine in Victoria – The Tyee

June 9, 2026

Question period is the wrong place to discuss rights and title. The NDP can choose a better way.

British Columbia is one of the most remarkably diverse places in North America. The province celebrates its ecologic biodiversity as “Super, Natural,” and Destination BC posters use the mountains, oceans and forests to draw visitors from around the world.

But the provincial territory is much more than its ecological splendour. What is often undervalued in the story we tell of British Columbia is how it is home to more than 35 distinct Indigenous languages, and dozens of legal orders and governance traditions. All told, British Columbia is an unparalleled mosaic of cultural and linguistic diversity.