Opinion: Montrose Properties is arguing it shouldn't have been excluded from legal battle that led to Aboriginal title decision

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VICTORIA — The B.C. NDP government is supporting a real estate company’s action to reopen the case that last year found the Cowichan Tribes had Aboriginal title over hundreds of hectares of land in Richmond.

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Richmond-based Montrose Properties launched the action because it was excluded from the five years of proceedings that led to about 200 hectares of its land being included in the area designated as covered by Aboriginal title.

B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma says the province supports the Montrose application because the company should never have been excluded.

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“We’ve been pretty clear in our positions through the Cowichan case that we think that the third-party landowner should have had a hearing,” Sharma told reporters this week.

“We made such an application in that court process. So therefore we........

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