Premier revives Land Act in ‘Faustian bargain’ for Indigenous consent, says ex-deputy (Northern Beat)

If there was a single issue in rural BC that edged the 2024 provincial election into a near-victory for the upstart Conservatives, it may have been the push by Premier David Eby to legally enshrine “shared decision-making” with indigenous people on Crown land use.

Opposition town hall meetings in early 2024 drew large, raucous crowds, concerned the NDP government’s proposed Land Act Amendments would give the more than 200 BC indigenous groups a legal veto over land use across the province’s vast public lands.

Word got out about the proposed changes, which amounted to Indigenous groups having a legal right to stop projects of their choosing, whether they occurred on Crown land, or were in the public interest or not ...

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