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Adam Pankratz: Eby’s co-governance with First Nations is driving investment out of B.C.
DRIPA delivers exactly what critics warned — paralyzing uncertainty, fleeing capital, and a province sliding into decline
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British Columbia Premier David Eby’s tenure has been terrible for British Columbians. In a survey published this week by the Business Council of B.C., 74 per cent of its members said they were decreasing their investment plans in British Columbia due to the disastrous implementation of DRIPA, B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ Act, which seeks to align B.C.’s laws with the United Nations declaration of the same name. The result has led to mass confusion and fear about who is truly in charge when it comes to running the province: its government or its First Nations?
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The concern is not misplaced. Recently, Terry Teegee, B.C. regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was directly asked by CKNW radio host Jill Bennett if “we are now in a position in B.C. where roughly 200 First Nations are co-governing this province with the B.C.........