“An e-mail landed in Premier Eby’s inbox this week. Signed by 80 people, with more letters behind their names than a can of ‘Alphaghetti’. It tells the Premier to stay the course on the {racist} “Declaration on the Rights of ‘Indigenous’ Peoples Act”, and calls anyone raising concerns a fear-monger spreading “anti-‘Indigenous’ rhetoric”, and promises that everything in B.C. is hunky dory – just trust the process.
“Before you accept that framing, take a closer look at the names who signed it. You’ve got Big Labour bosses, a flock of UBC and Osgoode {Aboriginal} law professors, foreign-funded ‘Stand.earth’, the ‘David Suzuki Foundation’, ‘Amnesty International’, ‘Green’ politicians, and a handful of obscure city councillors. It’s a who’s-who of people whose pay cheques don’t depend on a construction permit being issued, a mineral claim being respected, or a land title meaning what it says on paper.
“Now search the list and try to find the private sector employers. Find someone who signs the front of a cheque, not the back. Find an entrepreneur, a shop owner, a trades contractor – anyone who had to commit their own dollar to their business’ success.
“Those people didn’t sign the letter, and that’s no accident.
“The letter claims ‘DRIPA’ delivers “certainty and predictable processes” {The exact OPPOSITE of what it ACTUALLY does!!} and “economic growth” {? It should read ‘economic destruction’}. That’s a nice theory, but here’s what’s happened in the real world. The ‘Gitxaała’ ruling – driven by ‘Section 8.1’ of the “Interpretation Act”, which requires courts to read every B.C. statute through the lens of a United Nations declaration that was meant to be symbolic, not legislated – blew up the province’s mineral tenure system and left the mining and exploration sector frozen.
“And that was on top of the ‘Cowichan’ decision on ‘fee simple’ title – leaving the City of Richmond sending letters to roughly 150 landowners warning them their titles might be compromised and their properties possibly unsaleable. A lender pulled a $35 million construction loan, and prospective tenants vanished. Construction on a light industrial park has ground to a halt, costing everyday workers their jobs.
“These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re precisely what the activists want {! They are indoctrinated destroyers}.
“The signatories will tell you those are just scare stories, but Premier Eby himself, the guy who championed the flawed ‘DRIPA’ and wrote the implementation guidelines as Attorney General, stood up at the ‘Natural Resources Forum’ in January and said the courts have gone further than the Legislature ever intended. When the law’s own champion says it’s been stretched beyond what anyone contemplated, maybe it’s time to stop calling everyone else fear-mongers.
“The real question is narrower and more legitimate than the letter’s authors want to admit: should a provincial law – passed with a grand total of 14 minutes of democratic debate about what it would actually do – give courts a blank cheque to remake B.C.’s entire governance framework, with no defined limits and no democratic accountability? That’s a fair question. Smearing it as fear-mongering is a way of dodging it.
“Here’s what B.C. actually needs to do.
–Repeal ‘DRIPA’, don’t amend it. ‘Section 35’ of the Constitution already protects Aboriginal rights and title. The duty to consult is well-established law. B.C. doesn’t need a provincial statute pointing courts at a UN General Assembly resolution with no guardrails.
–Repeal ‘Section 8.1’ of the “Interpretation Act”, which requires all B.C. to conform with the UN declaration and turned the ‘Gitxaała’ case into a wrecking ball for the resource sector.
–Protect private property rights – legislatively and clearly, so that a letter from your City Hall one day isn’t the thing telling you your home is not really yours.
–Invest serious political will in the treaty process {NO MORE TREATIES! END RACE BASED LAW!!}, where negotiated outcomes produce durable legal certainty for everyone, including the Indigenous communities that want economic partnerships and have every right to pursue them.
{“where negotiated outcomes produce durable legal certainty for everyone” – That’s nonsense! One only has to examine all of the expensive court cases involving the already-existing Treaties. ENOUGH!}
“The activists want this to be a binary choice: ‘DRIPA’ as written, or you’re anti-‘Indigenous’. That’s cynical, false, and anti-democratic.
{NOTE: Canadian Aboriginals are ‘Indigenous’ to Mongolia and Siberia.}
“Here’s the real choice: Premier Eby can take advice from activists whose livelihood is completely insulated from the consequences of getting this wrong, or he can listen to the Richmond homeowner who heard from City Hall that the house she’s lived in for 30 years might not actually be hers.
“One of those people signed the letter. The other one didn’t.”
–‘Who’s Missing from the Pro-DRIPA Letter? Everyone Who Has Something to Lose’,
Jordan Bateman, Independent Contractors & Businesses Association, February 20, 2026
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“We, the undersigned, stand with Indigenous peoples in BC and call on Premier Eby and his government to recommit to meaningful implementation of the UN Declaration and the Declaration Act, and to not amend the Declaration Act or the Interpretation Act.”
Endorsed by:
Barb Nederpel, President, Hospital Employees’ Union
Karen Ranalletta, President, CUPE BC
Stephen von Sychowski, President, Vancouver & District Labour Council
Patrick Johnson, President, UFCW 1518
Brenda Chu, Acting President, MoveUP
Amanda Burrows, Executive Director, First United
Monica McKinlay, Lead Pastor, Grandview Church
Jessica Clogg, Executive Director & Senior Counsel, West Coast Environmental Law
Mark Gifford, Real Estate Foundation of BC
Dr. Sara Ghebremusse, Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law and Academic Director, UBC Future Minerals Initiative
Liza Hughes, Executive Director, BC Civil Liberties Association
Ketty Nivyabandi, Amnesty International Canada Section, English Speaking
Randall Cohn, Executive Director, Pivot Legal Society
Angela Marie MacDougall, BWSS Battered Women’s Support Services
Jacqui Mendes, Executive Director, Community Legal Assistance Society
Alice Kendall, Executive Director, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Sacia Burton & Chantelle Spicer, Co-Provincial Directors, BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
David Suzuki, Grandfather {?}
John Vaillant, Journalist and Author
Robert Bateman, Artist
Birgit Bateman
Stepan Wood, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Law, Society & Sustainability, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC
Natasha Affolder, Law Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC
Professor (Emeritus) Gordon Christie, University of British Columbia
Patricia M. Barkaskas, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC
Dr. Dayna Nadine Scott, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Dr. Carol Liao, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC
Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic, Osgoode Hall Law School
Shin Imai, Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School
Sarah Hunt, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Victoria
Deborah Curran, Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, University of Victoria
Onyx Sloan Morgan, Assistant Professor & Principals Research Chair, UBC Okanagan
Lea Nicholas-MacKenzie, Member (N. America), UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Dr. Charis Kamphuis
Professor Margot Young, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC
Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission (SEITC)
Kate Lawes, Parents4climate
Elza Kephart, Organizer, RBC Off Screen
Gina Morris, Spokesperson, Kamloops Moms for Clean Air
Will Patric, Executive Director, Rivers Without Borders
Annabel Webb, President/Co-founder, Justice for Girls
Nicole Kief, Executive Director, Prisoners’ Legal Services
Chad Hughes, Executive Director, Elk River Alliance
Pierre Iachetti, Executive Director, David Suzuki Foundation
Shelley Luce, Campaigns Director, Sierra Club BC
Robyn Duncan, Executive Director, Wildsight
Tim Burkhart, Director of Landscape Protection, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Torrance Coste, Associate Director, Wilderness Committee
Sarah McNeil, Executive Director, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – British Columbia
Nikki Skuce, Director, Northern Confluence Initiative
Kate McMahon, Team Lead, For Our Kids Burnaby
Kat Hartwig, Executive Director, Living Lakes Canada
Tim Morris, Project Director, BC Water Legacy – MakeWay Charitable Society
Jamie Kneen, MiningWatch Canada
Douglas Gook, Director, FORPA Forest Protection Allies
Eve Saint, Co-founder/Lead Coordinator, 8th Fire Rising
Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition
Kai Nagata, Energy Campaigner, Dogwood
Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands/Green Party of Canada Leader
Emily Lowan, Leader of the BC Greens
Vicky Law, Executive Director, Rise Women’s Legal Centre
Ben Simoni, Youth Climate Corps BC
Julia Hill Sorochan, Executive Director, SkeenaWild Conservation Trust
Gabrielle Legault, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies, UBC Okanagan
Kendra Strauss, Director, The Labour Studies Program, Simon Fraser University
Kimberly Shearon, Executive Director, Ecojustice
Beatrice Frank, Georgia Strait Alliance
Shawn Wilson, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies, UBC Okanagan
Amanda Adams and Iglika Ivanova, Co-Executive Directors, BC Policy Solutions
Les Kojima, President, National Association of Japanese Canadians
Councillor Teale Phelps Bondaroff, District of Saanich
Jessica Asch & Tara Williamson, Co-Research Directors, Indigenous Law Research Unit
Mary-Woo Sims, LLD, Former BC Chief Human Rights Commissioner
Susan Kim, Councillor, City of Victoria
Sarah Otto, Professor, UBC
Cora Beitel, RM, Strathcona Midwifery
Decolonial Solidarity Network
Andrew Dumbrille, Co-Director, Equal Routes
Jeremy Vander Hoek, Indigenous Rights Program Coordinator, Canadian Friends Service Committee
Sue Cairns, Councillor, City of Kimberley
Bruce Murdoch, Board Member East Kootenay Climate Hub
Liz McDowell, Senior Campaigns Director, Stand.earth
Justine Nelson, Executive Director, Rivershed Society of BC
Julia Beatty, Chair, Shuswap Climate Action Society
Nigel Bankes, FRSC, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Calgary
Leslie Payne, City Councillor, City of Nelson
Laura Sacks, Co-founder, West Kootenay Climate Hub
Viveca Ellis, Executive Director, Centre for Family Equity
Irwin Oostindie, Voor Urban Labs
Karen Thomas, President, Wild Bird Trust of BC
Sarah Kooner, President, Health Sciences Association of BC
–‘Joint Call: BC must recommit to meaningful implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act’,
West Coast Environmental Law, February 18, 2026
See also:
‘Who Owns British Columbia?’
“It should be noted that ‘aboriginal title’ was considered “extinguished” by successive B.C. governments for almost 150 years. Then, it suddenly made its reappearance when it was imposed on B.C. by an Ottawa-based Supreme Court.”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/who-owns-british-columbia/
‘The ‘Indigenization’ of British Columbia Law’ (UNDRIP) {July 15, 2022}:
“Canadian governments are busy establishing a legal framework where Canadian law becomes subservient to the United Nations ‘ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’, regardless of the wishes of the Canadian people. British Columbia – along with the federal government — are foolishly leading the way in this undermining of Canadian democracy:
“A small bill with far-reaching implications. ‘Bill 29’ ran a mere three pages, including cover and explanatory notes. It constituted one of the first substantive moves by the government to amend provincial laws to incorporate the ‘principles’ of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. ‘Bill 29’ added a clause that said every
“Act and regulation must be construed as being consistent with the Declaration on the ‘Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act’.”
“The latter being the Act whereby two years ago, the legislature unanimously enshrined the 46 articles of the UN Declaration and set in motion an action plan to incorporate them into provincial law.”
‘Race Based Law Takeover in B.C. Expands’ (Archaeological remains) {Jan.20, 2026}:
“Another example of how corrupt Aboriginal leadership is using Race Based Law to enable extortion:
“A Kamloops landowner has learned an expensive lesson that most British Columbians don’t even know exists: if you dig on your own property and uncover ‘Indigenous’ {sic} remains, you could be on the hook for six-figure costs, with no help from the government and no clear way out. Their experience should serve as a warning to anyone who assumes private property still means what it used to in the province.”
‘Aboriginal Land Title Supercedes Property Ownership?’ (Videos) {Jan.2, 2026}:
“For those of you who prefer watching (or listening) instead of reading, here’s a sample of videos relating to the potential loss of property ownership in Canada:
‘B.C. Indigenizing Mineral Claims’ (Mineral Claims Consultation Framework) {Dec.27, 2025}:
“The new system is poised to increase costs and administrative burden for all parties, including ‘First Nations’, project proponents, government, and taxpayers…and will cripple resource development in British Columbia as investors and project proponents abandon the province in favour of other jurisdictions with less regulatory uncertainty.”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2025/12/27/b-c-indigenizing-mineral-claims/
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