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Vaughn Palmer: Adopting UNDRIP featured wishful thinking and stonewalling by B.C. NDP

Opposition MLA Mike de Jong asked the right questions during key debates, but the NDP stonewalled him

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VICTORIA — B.C.’s decision to merge its laws with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was a shot-in-the-dark experiment from the outset, according to then-premier John Horgan.

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Horgan was leader of the NDP Opposition in 2016 when Indigenous leaders Stewart Phillip, Terry Teegee and others persuaded him that UNDRIP was the way to go.

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“I told them I was a big champion of treaties,” wrote Horgan in the........

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