B.C.’s all-party support for active reconciliation is faltering during election campaign

Though British Columbia became the first jurisdiction in Canada to incorporate the UN declaration on Indigenous rights into provincial law, the all-party support for active reconciliation is fracturing during the provincial election campaign.Since passing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in 2019, the B.C. NDP government has taken concrete steps to ensure provincial laws and policies align with the United Nations resolution, UNDRIP. Ottawa also pledged to undertake the same action federally a year after B.C., over the objections of six other provinces.