UBCM leader blasts NDP for lack of consultation -- Indigenous leaders got two years to consult on Heritage Conservation Act changes, municipal leaders got a three-hour lecture

... a UBCM official stepped up to brief me on the growing backlash among mayors and councillors over the NDP government’s ambitious makeover of the Heritage Conservation Act.

The project to transform the Act has been worked on for two years by the New Democrats and their First Nations partners. But after the proposals were mostly finalized, local government had been given a single three-hour session in mid-August under the guise of “engagement.”

It was pretty much a one-way conversation, I was told. Less “what do you think?” than “here’s where we’re going, so prepare yourselves” ...

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