Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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Oct 28, 2026
JennaGUEST
I would say that Tim is aware of what's going on in Canada.
JennaGUEST
UNDRIP specifically and the rights of the native peoples coming, you know, and this is like mandates coming down from the UN.
JennaGUEST
How does that fit into a narrative for someone to understand? This is a good example of how communitarian law falls upon local government.
JennaGUEST
Could you start there?
JennaGUEST
And there's a governance because it becomes a system that is probably AI generated by this point, but how international law can make the entire world under a one size fits all system.
JennaGUEST
And it's happening right in front of our eyes.
JennaGUEST
And one example would be UNDRIP and how Native rights and how that's written into, like, medicine, according to Sheila McCarthy.
JennaGUEST
McFarlane.
Vaughn PalmerGUEST
But on treaties, remember, according to John Horgan, Grand Chief Stuart Phillips said we don't want treaties.
Vaughn PalmerGUEST
We want UNDRIP.
Vaughn PalmerGUEST
We want the UN Declaration.
Vaughn PalmerGUEST
So, you know, I think Horgan was right when he said treaties are hard work, but they're the best way to go.
Tom IsaacGUEST
Chief Stewart Phillip, I believe, talked about protecting their inherent constitutional legal rights.
Tom IsaacGUEST
None of those flow from UNDRIP.
Tom IsaacGUEST
They flow from Section 35 in the Constitution of Canada.
Tom IsaacGUEST
And so my issue with, really isn't so much UNDRIP.
Tom IsaacGUEST
UNDRIP is not a bad document by itself, but it was the government of BC saying that every BC law and regulation has to abide by it.
Tom IsaacGUEST
That is impossible, Michelle.
Tom IsaacGUEST
That can't be done.
Tom IsaacGUEST
It's not open for debate.
Geoff MossGUEST
That was their mandate.
Geoff MossGUEST
I think, in my view, they exceeded their mandate when in calls to action 41 to 44, they actually went so far as to say that UNDRIP, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was recommended to be the framework for reconciliation in Canada.
Geoff MossGUEST
The BC government at the time, that was the Horgan administration in 2019, picked up on that recommendation, I believe, and said, yes, this is the way forward.
Geoff MossGUEST
We need a reconciliation vehicle in British Columbia as though we didn't already have one.
Geoff MossGUEST
I think the mistake that was made in 2019 was the belief that somehow UNDRIP was required when we already had Section 35 in this country, which already recognizes and affirms constitutionally Aboriginal rights and treaty rights.
Geoff MossGUEST
So in my view, even in 2019, I thought, why are we doing this? I don't understand how adding UNDRIP on top of Section 35 is going to create anything but confusion.
Geoff MossGUEST
And so that's where it began.
Geoff MossGUEST
Canada passed its own version in 2021, the Trudeau government, Their version is a little less onerous and a little less subject to creating conflict, I think.
Max FawcettHOST
And I don't think David Eby handled that well at all.
Max FawcettHOST
Lauren Dirksen has said that they're going to repeal DRIPA, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Max FawcettHOST
What is that going to do? Is that a powder keg for conflict and fighting? Is it not going to be as big a deal as people like, frankly, me have been suggesting it could be for resource projects? What does that look like to you?
Sandy GarossinoGUEST
Well, I think the jury is still out.
Sandy GarossinoGUEST
British Columbia, at the time that we entered Canada, pretty historically since, refused, even though the federal government at the time strongly urged the provincial government to negotiate these treaties or allow the Canadian government to negotiate treaties, and they didn't do it.
Sandy GarossinoGUEST
So we have these enormous resources, this enormous province that's larger than Texas that, for the most part, doesn't have any treaties.
Sandy GarossinoGUEST
And along comes the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and here we are today.
Sandy GarossinoGUEST
So this is going to be a live issue.
Adam StirlingHOST
What will happen to the U.N.
Adam StirlingHOST
Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples-inspired DRIPA? That's the Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act among the promises made by the incoming B.C.
Adam StirlingHOST
Conservatives today.
Adam StirlingHOST
that would be repealed if and when they formed government.
Hugh BreakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I think you would be wise to sit down and listen to them.
Hugh BreakerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You may not want to accept everything they say, but as well, you've got the Conservative with some far right-wing people perhaps farther right than their current leader on things such as UNDRIP.
Tina HouseCORRESPONDENT
In the morning after his win, Lorne Dirksen was asked about his plan to repeal DRIPA.
Lorne DirksenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I say that this is an exciting time for First Nations and a partnership because I am completely committed to working with First Nations.
Sean SpeerGUEST
Essentially the entire province is the subject of contestation I think a couple of times over.
Sean SpeerGUEST
And the EB government, driven in large part by kind of ideology, only made the situation more complicated by taking the kind of performative land acknowledgement that people are accustomed to and essentially codifying it in law on what became known as the DRIPA, the provincial enactment of the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
Sean SpeerGUEST
And so you have courts – predisposed to resolving these issues in favor of First Nations, now with a signal from the elected government in that direction.
Sean SpeerGUEST
And we've had a couple of pretty big court decisions that have thrown property rights into question.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
Everyone knows who Justice and Commissioner Murray Sinclair is, his son, again, Sinclair, doing amazing work as a prof and wrote out a great book with Dr. Sean Carlton about, you know, truth before reconciliation and really tackling with a peer-reviewed academic lens this denialism that so many lowbrow people are perpetuating.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
He came out and he said that David Eby's attempt at UNDRIP was as bad or hasn't something to the effect that it is as bad as when the Indian Act came out.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
And I was just like, man, that is like a historical point to make when we're talking about UNDRIP in this moment.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
So I don't know what David Eby is going to do in the future.
Michelle RobinsonHOST
But I had seen one person I just adore on Twitter say that this is what happens when you try to govern right of center or center.
Adam StirlingHOST
And when we got to the point where we were in December and David Eby admitted that we needed to reform parts of the Declaration Act, they call it, for...
Adam StirlingHOST
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, codifying elements of it into law, that seemed to be a – it was a marked departure from what we would call ideology, from what we would call an ideologue, because even though the conservatives failed to recognize it – in many respects.
Adam StirlingHOST
I think EB alienated a lot of his own people when he did that.
Adam StirlingHOST
David EB took risks.
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