Vaughn Palmer: Geoff Plant says repealing DRIPA would do little as courts have made it clear governments must abide by Indigenous rights

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VICTORIA — Premier David Eby should be praised, not criticized, for trying to reconcile Indigenous relations in light of court decisions, says former B.C. Liberal attorney general Geoff Plant.

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“The drumbeat of complaints from Opposition politicians and commentators about the B.C. government’s Aboriginal policies reveals a profound misunderstanding of Canadian law that supposes political ideology is the cause of the current state of legal affairs,” says Plant.

“In reality, when it comes to questions of Indigenous claims and rights, it is the judges who have the last word, not politicians.”

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Plant delivered his reading of the court decisions in a lengthy article published last week in the Northern Beat online news service.

He underscored the many times over the past three decades when the courts have broadened and deepened Aboriginal rights and title, tying the hands of........

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