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Todd Stone: B.C.'s DRIPA law should be fixed, not scrapped
B.C. does not need to choose between reconciliation and economic prosperity
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In 2019, as a member of the legislative assembly of British Columbia, I voted for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). DRIPA was intended as a framework to advance reconciliation like never before; a pathway for all British Columbians to walk hand-in-hand down a path toward meaningful reconciliation.
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I was taught by Manny Jules, the former chief of the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc in my hometown of Kamloops, that reconciliation is two partners walking a path together side by side. One side can’t get too far ahead of the other, because when that happens, things break down.
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Unfortunately, that is where we are now as a province — a breakdown. What we were promised would never happen back in 2019 has happened. Questioned by my colleagues in the opposition in 2019, then-Indigenous relations minister Scott Fraser answered definitively, “I just want to be clear: Bill 41 does not bring UNDRIP into legal force and........