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Adam Pankratz: Reconciliation law will be David Eby's downfall

There's no way B.C.'s premier can survive after backing down on his promise to amend the economically ruinous piece of legislation

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Though no one in British Columbia’s current NDP government will say it, it’s clear that David Eby’s days as premier are numbered. He has backed himself into a corner from which there can be no escape, despite his preference to protect his own political skin at the expense of the prosperity of British Columbians. 

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The issue that will sink Eby is, ironically, something that the premier himself was a major cheerleader for: B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). The act’s aim was to ensure that new B.C. laws were in alignment with the United Nations declaration on the same topic, often referred to as UNDRIP.

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I have written at length about the incompatibility of the UN declaration and Canadian law in this paper, but a recap of the main issues that will take Eby down are worth highlighting to demonstrate the extent of the calamity facing B.C. as a result of actions that........

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