By Wolfgang Depner A bill in British Columbia’s legislature to prevent publicly funded employees from making Indigenous land acknowledgements failed to pass first reading, but reveals a schism between provincial Conservative members. The bill proposed by One BC’s Dallas Brodie would have prohibited what it calls acknowledgements that “deny sovereignty of the Crown” and “attribute collective guilt based on race, ancestry or actions of Canadian historical figures.” Most members of the legislature voted against it, but Conservatives Heather Maahs and Harman Bhangu joined Brodie and Tara Armstrong, also of One BC, as well as Independent Jordan Kealy in voting for the proposed legislation. Conservative House Leader A’aliya Warbus, who is Indigenous, said after the vote that it “does not hurt anybody” to make the territorial acknowledgements and B.C. and Canada…
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