On December 3, 2020, Minister David Lametti, the federal Minister of Justice, introduced Bill C-15, An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Bill ...

On February 12, 2019, the British Columbia government announced plans to introduce legislation that implements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) (the ...

More politicians are coming forward to urge governments to end their commitment to the broad ideals of the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Former Haisla Nation chief ...

British Columbians are more aware of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) than residents elsewhere in Canada, but most do not agree with the way the province has ...

Geoff Plant was British Columbia's Liberal attorney-general from 2001 to 2005. He practises law with Gall Legge Grant Zwack in Vancouver. B.C.'s premier John Horgan recently committed his NDP ...

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On Dec. 3, the Trudeau government introduced Bill C-15 into Parliament to bring the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) into Canadian law. It sounds like a ...

Take Two: Ottawa is again moving to codify the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canadian law. In this reshoot, the Trudeau government is spending a lot of time ...

Vancouver city council approved Tuesday a historical document involving three First Nations that sets out a framework for the municipal government to right historical wrongs and recognize rights and ...

When B.C. passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (“DRIPA”) in 2019, it was broadly applauded as a new pathway in relationships between the provincial government and Indigenous ...