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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. farm sales hurt by Aboriginal title questions, MLA charges

Opinion: The growing uncertainty about the impact of Aboriginal rights and title on private property and tenures has hit ranching country

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VICTORIA — It was billed as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own prime ranch land” when 12 B.C. ranches totalling 182 square kilometres were put up for sale late last year.

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Yet when the deadline for initial offers to Monette Farms passed in January, there were no takers.

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The lack of sales was blamed on growing uncertainty about the impact of Aboriginal rights and title on private property and tenures in ranching country and........

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