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By Wolfgang Depner and Alessia Passafiume British Columbia’s government has proposed suspending its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, according to two sources in a meeting between Premier David Eby and First Nations leaders. One of the sources told The Canadian Press a three-year suspension of the legislation has been proposed, while the other didn’t give a time frame. Eby said on Wednesday it was “non-negotiable” that the legislation designed to reflect the United Nations Declaration on the Rights on Indigenous Peoples would be changed. DRIPA has been cited by First Nations involved in two landmark court victories last year that sparked concern about implications for private land ownership and the province’s mining rules. One of the sources told The Canadian Press that the proposal “effectively places every… <\/p>\n

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By Wolfgang Depner and Alessia Passafiume British Columbia’s government has proposed suspending its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, according to two sources in a meeting between Premier David Eby and First Nations leaders. One of the sources told The Canadian Press a three-year suspension of the legislation has been proposed, while the other didn’t give a time frame. Eby said on Wednesday it was “non-negotiable” that the legislation designed to reflect the United Nations Declaration on the Rights on Indigenous Peoples would be changed. DRIPA has been cited by First Nations involved in two landmark court victories last year that sparked concern about implications for private land ownership and the province’s mining rules. One of the sources told The Canadian Press that the proposal “effectively places every... <\/p>\n

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