David Eby's 'pause' for B.C. heritage act makeover another failure for NDP's secretive process |
Vaughn Palmer: The pause illustrates the latest failure of the NDP’s preference for negotiating in secret with Indigenous leaders, then springing the results on the public as a done deal
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VICTORIA — The B.C. New Democrats this week announced an open-ended pause to their makeover of the Heritage Conservation Act, saying “more consultations” were needed on a project that had already been in the works for going on four years.
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It actually illustrated the latest failure of the NDP’s preference for negotiating in secret with Indigenous leaders, then springing the results on the public as a done deal.
The province launched its Heritage Conservation Act transformation process back in 2022, promising to strengthen protection of heritage sites while also — and this was somewhat contradictory — streamlining approvals for development.
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After an initial round of consultations, the transformation process was delegated in the fall of 2023 to a working group consisting of provincial government officials and Indigenous representatives only.
The group worked in........