The Supreme Court of Canada will hear British Columbia’s appeal of a ruling that found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims regime are “inconsistent.”
The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled in December that the provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act should be “properly interpreted” to incorporate UNDRIP into the laws of B.C. with immediate legal effect.
At the time, a statement from the Gitxaala Nation, one of two nations challenging the law, called the decision precedent-setting.
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The nation, along with the Ehattesaht First Nation, argued the operation of an automated online registry permitting “free miners” to register claims to mineral rights on Crown land before consulting affected First Nations was inconsistent with the Crown’s duty to consult.
The provincial government passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act into law in November 2019.
The government said the act establishes the UN declaration as B.C.’s “framework for reconciliation.”
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B.C. Premier David Eby said in December that the Court of Appeal decision “potentially puts courts in the driver’s seat instead of British Columbians.”
Eby said it was “absolutely crucial” that residents of the province, through their elected representatives, remain in control of the process.
“Too much rides on it in terms of our province’s prosperity and certainty going forward,” he said.
Following its usual practice, the Supreme Court gave no reasons Thursday for agreeing to review the case. No date for a hearing has been set.
Joe BC – Listen to you trying your hardest to scare me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh man that is seriously the funniest sh1t ever
Keep hiding Joe. I know you will
Keep talking sh1t boys. Since I already know neither of you are going to show up you might as well keep talking. That’s obviously all you’ve got
Of course Doug is here to chime in. The biggest racist coward of them all
Joe BC – Cool story buddy. Musquem golf course 8am Sunday
JV Calm down. You are losing it. Got back to rehab. I didn’t read anyone below saying court cases were non public that just you making up stuff again. All court are public everyone knows.
But for example all the meetings the FN (hehe) had with Eby prior to the upcoming vote on the suspension of DRIPA were closed door. Fact!
That was reported in the news and even brought up in legislate as a point of concern by Halford.
As for the agreements Search it:
“ There is no exact figure for how many agreements are undisclosed, but hundreds of Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) between First Nations, private corporations, and governments remain hidden from public view”
“ there are over 500 such relationship agreements estimated to be in place across Canada’s mining and energy sectors alone, independent legal and academic researchers note that the exact number is impossible to verify because the contracts “hide in the shadows”
Why is late JV?
You make it so easy to prove you wrong.
Haha JV get triggered much? What a lunatic you are. Look at how many comments you just made crying and insulting everyone and then complaining about them doing the same thing. You are the biggest hypocrite on here. You can’t or won’t even acknowledge your own comments. Such a loser.
The NV stands for North Vancouver (ya dmb kck) and I have step over your type every time I have go into DTES.
I’ll put it this way, I am not even 50.
And won my share of bar fights and given my height and size hardly anyone approaches me looking for fight so you are not scaring anyone.
They way talk you don’t even sound like guy who show up for his own fight. You are a joke. Picking fights sitting behind a keyboard and screen.
That’s being coward! Lol.
Duncan Campbell Scott – ‘No you’ ‘No you’ ‘No you’ that’s all you’ve got. Lol yeah I’d love to see you walk up to a First Nations guy and tell him he’s a coward. You’d get KO’d all the way back to whatever European country your relatives immigrated to Canada from. Hiding in meetings? You mean political consultations and court cases. So I guess that would mean everyone who attends a meeting or a court room is a coward. Holy sh1t you guys are f**king stupid. Seriously though thanks for the laughs Duncan 🤣🤣
Joe BC – Come down to Vancouver this weekend I’ll smack you silly old man. Yeah I’m the one spreading disinformation… meanwhile all I do on here is speak the truth. It’s not my fault you little Naz1 deniers can’t handle the truth. Too funny
Lol look at these little whiteboys claiming that I’m here everyday. More racist idiots on the internet spreading disinformation. These guys are like a dime a dozen in the Global BC comment section
JV I would the say FN are actually the real cowards. Always hiding behind private meetings, non disclosure and NDAs.
Even you yourself in a post on the Hydro Story a day or two ago you admitted that here.
Why all secrecy what are FN afraid of? Now thats hiding thats cowardly.
(Bob FN= XX hahaha) me too now.
Then JV you are just as big of a coward in that case. You too are up here everyday if your life insulting, name calling, spreading lies and pretending to laugh at facts that only you deem as false. I’ll bet $1000, if you actual had it, that you too don’t say any of hate you spew up here online to anyone’s face in person either. You are no better and no worse then anyone else up here. Get use to it.
A vote is coming sooner rather than later.
Bob B is the real coward. Going online every single day if his life to spread hate and disinformation about First Nations people when you already know he’s too much of a b1tch to say anything to a First Nations person’s face. That’s why he only does it when he’s hiding behind a computer screen. Typical racist Naz1 coward
Another day another DRIPA. eh?
It’s almost every day there is another DRIPA story with the FN meddling in the business affairs of BC for their personal financial gain.
And Eby that coward, is no where to be seen. He was one day away from doing the right thing by pausing this gong show when he chickened out .
Or he was black mailed or something.
(when I write FN I mean F’n Ntvs)
So some private company or individuals go out invest all this time and money in prospecting, testing and analysis, plus all the work and due diligence applying for the claim only for some FN to come in at the last minute and start making demands for part ownership or part of the returns with out investing anything. Then after a half dozen meetings, if the FN don’t get some form of NDA compensation, they throw DRIPA in your face, and sue you in court. Claiming that you didn’t conduct proper consultations.
Just like they are doing here and just like with the BC Hydro case that’s in court now and reported here two days ago. This will become endless.
Line in the sand time. We going to become serfs in some modern day FN Tribal Feudal System.
Try this you are correct. I think the whole aboriginal government entities should be disbanded and tell aboriginals you are no longer on reserves. You are like the rest of us. You are no longer the so called “SPECIAL PEOPLE”. I am so sick of hearing their whining and appear to get the golden ticket everytime they whine.
A mistake in 2019, based on earlier mistakes by PET should not give one group of Canadians more rights than another. Natives should only have the rights given with treaties. IF they did not signed one when the last of the treaties for Canada were signed, then they should not get any extra rights.