An annual gathering of municipal leaders from across British Columbia opens in Vancouver Monday with the province’s Indigenous rights legislation high on the agenda, along with housing and public safety, among other topics.
The Union of B.C. Municipalities convention runs until Friday and president Cori Ramsay says the future of B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act will be top of mind for many of the nearly 2,000 expected delegates.
Ramsay says local governments are highly committed to reconciliation and have been working for years to build relationships with First Nations.
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But the city councillor from Prince George, B.C., says uncertainty has stemmed from recent court rulings, including a successful challenge by First Nations to B.C.’s mineral tenure system
The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled in that case that B.C.’s Indigenous rights legislation, known as DRIPA, should be interpreted to incorporate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into provincial laws with immediate effect.
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Premier David Eby backed down on a plan to suspend or amend DRIPA in April amid strong opposition from many Indigenous leaders, while members of the provincial Conservatives have called for the law to be scrapped altogether.
Ramsay says delegates will also ask Eby’s government to reverse clawbacks in funding for community housing, deal with unprecedented mental health and addiction issues in communities across B.C., and renew funding for the FireSmart program aimed at boosting resilience to worsening wildfires.
Both Eby and B.C. Conservative Party Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and scheduled to attend the conference later this week.
“The Ipsos poll shows 46 per cent of British Columbians have an unfavourable impression of Findlay and 35 per cent have a very unfavourable one.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
Bill yeah sure you are buddy. Your comment looks like it was posted by a teenager with downs syndrome
Let the muslambs into cunada, I give two shats, I’m in USA tech making 6 figures
As a side note the stal̓əw̓ Pow-Wow in Langley was such a huge success over the weekend! I had a great time taking in the incredible dancing, singing, drumming and community spirit. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to bring people together and create such a welcoming celebration of culture and community 🤲🏼♾️😁
#StalewPowWow #Culture #Community
A side note lol what a nutjob
Side note: I can count on one thing.
None of these new comers care about DRIPA or the FNs. Look how they voted in Richmond and Surrey!! 😂
😂 Wrong again JV. 😂
Fact Check
Source Stats Canada Gov
Christian-47%
Non Tel – 20%
Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu—33%
Meaning as little as 8% vs your number you made up number of 85%. Wrong by a factor of 10x. 😂 😂 😂
So easy.
And look at what the settlers and the descendents of the settlers have done to this country. Genocide, greed, overpopulation, defecits, inflation, climate change, and now white supremacism. There’s your white history my friend
Did you know that a staggering 85% of all refugees coming to Canada are Muslim? Even worse a staggering 100% of the refugees that came to Canada in the 1800’s where white Christians
Here is some Liberal History.
“ Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his Minister of Indian Affairs, Jean Chrétien, tried to abolish the Indian Act through the 1969 White Paper. [1] The 1969 White Paper ProposalOfficial Title: Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Status.
Core Goal: Eliminate Indian status, dissolve the Department of Indian Affairs, and end the special legal relationship between Indigenous peoples and the federal government.
Key Actions: Proposed ending treaties, converting reserve lands to private property, and transferring service responsibilities to the provinces.
Trudeau’s Vision: Based on the idea of individual equality, Trudeau viewed the Indian Act as a discriminatory law that hindered First Nations from being equal citizens in his vision of a “just society”.
See folks not all that long ago even Liberals thought this was a good idea.
What can be voted in can be voted out.
Cancel DRIPA, the Indian act, and all grifter-“reconciliations”.
Treat all 40 million people here the same. No special privileges.
First Nayions are “thriving”?? Hahahaha
Isn’t it funny how these white power losers on the internet keep talking all this racist buIIshit about First Nations people being “conquered” yet the First Nations people are still thriving. If they were conquered then they wouldn’t still be here. Not only that but First Nations culture is thriving and is currently the main issue in BC politics right now. Have fun crossing the Stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge because it’s not going anywhere lol
Ballooning deficit aside, and that fact that Eny is a complete gimp, this business with the chugs and land rights will easily deliver the Conservatives a landslide victory next BC election. As long as the usual chug drug addicts are living near my work at McDonald’s. I get cheap drugs and blowjobs.
Anyways I just wanted to remind everyone that the stal̓əw̓ Pow-Wow in Langley was such a huge success over the weekend! I had a great time taking in the incredible dancing, singing, drumming and community spirit. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to bring people together and create such a welcoming celebration of culture and community 🤲🏼♾️😁
#StalewPowWow #Culture #Community
Sorry guys I’m actually struggling with mental health issues right now. I’m actually Bob B but I’m posting as Doug Brekfaust and then I’m also posting as Bob B again. I must be an absolute moron to think that it’s not completely obvious that I’m posting under both names. I think I’m extremely intelligent but then I give myself away so easily. I think my IQ is a 200 but it’s more like an 80 on a good day
Did you that a staggering 85% of all refugees coming to Canada are Muslim? Even worse a staggering 100% of the refugees that came to Canada in the 1800’s where white Christians. Even worse look what they’ve done to our country
reconciliation and DRIPA is a scam
Who cares what Cindy Woodhouse says. She is so obviously biased being FN herself .
Her statement below basically says the FNs are willing to hold our economy and progress hostage until we pay some kind of ransom to them. This unelected minority of people deliberately won’t allow Canada’s economy grow until some kind of compensation or payoffs are made to them. They not even trying to hide the fact of it anymore.
The stal̓əw̓ Pow-Wow in Langley was such a huge success over the weekend! I had a great time taking in the incredible dancing, singing, drumming and community spirit. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to bring people together and create such a welcoming celebration of culture and community 🤲🏼♾️😁
#StalewPowWow #Culture #Community
To quote Cindy Woodhouse recently…”Canada’s economy will never flourish until the FN’s economy flourishes”. This alone should tell you where Canada is going and what should really be addressed at this gathering. How can we stimulate any business development when we are fighting with them. Business leaders trust our dealings with the USA over our dealings with the 3% that is holding back our developments.
Again another story about the aboriginals. Get rid of DRIPA , why are the corrupt united nations telling us what to do. Tell the aboriginals no more money. They need to stop acting like the SPECIAL PEOPLE. They need to join the rest of canadians and get jobs and pay taxes and get off the reserves. The feds and provincial leaders all seem ruled by the minority of aboriginals. Maybe get rid of all government and let the aboriginals take over. Tell them to dig up the fake graves with over 200 fake bodies, or tell the aboriginals to give back all the money given to take the fake bodies to their reserves. Odd once they got millions all of a sudden the aboriginals refused to dig up the fake graves.
The NDP are not fit to Govern.
Six Months ago 90% of MLAs who actually “do” represent the electorate wanted DRIPA to be amended, suspended or repealed. Fact. Eby who represents all BC was the initiator of the amendments and suspension. The Public Land Use Society, PLUS, is putting out poll numbers of 66%, 75% and 86% that represent the opinion of those surveyed wanting the decision making powers fully back-with elected officials.
Angus Reid polls had 47% of British Columbians support repealing DRIPA outright.53% feel DRIPA goes too far in limiting provincial authority, a rise from 44% in August 2025. Only 30% view the act as a necessary step toward reconciliation, dropping from previous years. 26% of past BC NDP voters surprisingly support scrapping the law.
Better late than never. At least now public opinion is being taken into account.
The FNs have gone into this T&R with only “their” best interests in mind. There has been no consideration by the FNs with regards to what is fair or best for the rest of society. In addition to that all these treaties and negotiations are willfully conducted behind closed doors and signed with non disclosure conditions until the last minute.
They are thinking of a way to hand it all over to F.N.so they can achieve the Virtue Signal Emmy of Leftard Wokeness.
Canada owes First Nations nothing
They should thankful that they have been treated so well.by the conquering nation
Most civilizations throughout history weren’t