Vaughn Palmer: Entering Tory leadership race, MLA Peter Milobar renews his call to repeal the Declaration Act

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VICTORIA — B.C. Conservative MLA Peter Milobar called for repeal of the Declaration Act in entering his party’s leadership race on Friday, even as he noted there was nothing new about the stance for him or the party.

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“I campaigned to repeal DRIPA a year and a half ago,” Milobar told host Rob Fai of CKNW on Friday. “This is not a new position for me or for anyone in our caucus. We have campaigned against it.”

DRIPA is shorthand for B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, the enabling legislation for the UN Declaration.

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The Act passed unanimously in 2019. But support has eroded in recent years amid growing awareness of the legislation’s role in transferring control of provincial land and resources to the province’s 204 Indigenous nations.

John Rustad joined his then-B. C. Liberal colleagues in........

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