BREAKING: The DRIPA gamble, by @IndianRevisited hymie.substack.com/p/the-dri… Former provincial court judge Brian Giesbrecht says British Columbia chiefs’ rejection of the proposed amendments to the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) helped the B.C. Conservatives win the provincial election. The chiefs’ stance, following the Gitxaala case, created legal instability and forced the NDP to abandon the amendments, ultimately contributing, he claims, to the government’s collapse. While I’m not entirely convinced this was the main reason for Eby’s premature election call, I’m sure many voters decided to throw out the NDP government yesterday because they feared the now ex-premier was wrongly turning over both Crown and private lands to the remnants of mixed-race indigenous bands of formerly wandering hunters and gatherers whose ancestors had never developed fee-simple or other exclusive property rights to the territories they occupied on a short-term or occasional basis. I also believe that even if the NDP had completed their legally mandated term as the governing party in B.C., they would have lost by an even bigger margin two years from now.

Smith confirmed she will continue to use taxpayer dollars to appeal the shutdown of the original separatist question... But regardless of the outcome, she won't ask another separation question. She wants the ruling to ensure First Nations don't have to be consulted. #abpoli

"So, I want to thank you, Danielle Smith. Why? Because today we stand united, we're not going anywhere... if you have problems with first nations, you can leave." Piikani First Nation Chief Troy Knowlton does not mince words on Bill 54 and a lack of Indigenous consulation.

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Smith played the separatists the same way she played the rest of us about fixing healthcare in 90 days. She gave the appearance of doing something, while doing absolutely nothing for you & picking your pocket at the same time. The UCP is outright antagonistic towards Albertans.

Naheed Nenshi on Indigenous turnout in the Alberta referendum: "The very people who've been hurt more by the mistakes of Canada than anybody else, stood up as the proudest champions of Canada."

To save her political skin she gambled with one of the greatest nations that's ever existed.

FNLC CONDEMNS RACIST REMARKS BY BC CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE CALLING FOR FIRST NATIONS TO BE “CONQUERED”: newswire.ca/news-releases/fn…

I think about this often.