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By Wolfgang Depner British Columbia Premier David Eby said he may extend the current legislative session to find support among individual First Nations over his plans to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. “Even now, we are engaging with chiefs to try to find a path forward in a way that they can support, and I hope to be able to have some chiefs standing with us to say, ‘look, we don’t like this, but we understand the government’s concern,'” he said at a news conference on Monday. The proposal comes after NDP house leader Mike Farnworth announced that the planned legislation to suspend the act \u2014 which Eby says poses legal peril to the province \u2014 will no longer be a confidence vote,… <\/p>\n

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By Wolfgang Depner British Columbia Premier David Eby said he may extend the current legislative session to find support among individual First Nations over his plans to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. “Even now, we are engaging with chiefs to try to find a path forward in a way that they can support, and I hope to be able to have some chiefs standing with us to say, ‘look, we don’t like this, but we understand the government’s concern,’” he said at a news conference on Monday. The proposal comes after NDP house leader Mike Farnworth announced that the planned legislation to suspend the act \u2014 which Eby says poses legal peril to the province \u2014 will no longer be a confidence vote,... <\/p>\n

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