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FIRST READING: The non-Trump Americans now trying to assert jurisdiction over Canada

BC making all its laws subject to Indigenous oversight may also include tribes in the U.S.

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Despite a vocal effort to insulate itself from U.S. influence, B.C. may have ironically exposed itself to a situation in which Americans will have veto power over its laws.

Under B.C.’s 2019 DRIPA law, which adopted the terms of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, Indigenous groups are empowered to “own, use, develop and control” any provincial land they once occupied.

And now, two U.S.-based Indigenous groups are arguing that DRIPA should give them jurisdiction over B.C. government decisions, as their traditional territory includes pieces of what is now Canada.

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