By Wolfgang Depner The lawyer for the Cowichan Tribes said they will make a proposal in January that protects private property rights in the landmark Aboriginal title case that the B.C. Conservatives have said calls into question who controls British Columbia. Lawyer David Rosenberg said that if it has “the right attitude,” the incoming Conservative government will find it easier to resolve the Cowichan case than to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, known as DRIPA. The 2025 Cowichan ruling on a portion of Crown, city and private land in Richmond, B.C., found that Aboriginal title is a “senior interest” compared with fee-simple title, and sections of B.C.’s Land Title Act that establish fee-simple title as “indefeasible” do not apply to Aboriginal title. It has triggered…
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