Who would you believe when it comes to First Nations issues in British Columbia?
Geoff Plant or Pierre Poilievre/Caroline Elliott?
Here are some quotes:
“No, I don’t think people should be worried,” said Plant, attorney general under Premier Gordon Campbell.
“If you, like me, live in a house in a neighbourhood in a city, some nice tree growing in front of it, you’re not at risk. If you’re planning a $25 billion mining project in northeastern British Columbia, then you better sit and do some work about who the Indigenous people are in that territory and find out how you can engage with them.
“There is nothing in Cowichan that is intended to unsettle what I’ll call ordinary private property ownership in British Columbia.”
Private 👏 property 👏 is 👏 not 👏 at 👏 risk.
Expropriating private homes isn’t how claims are settled. Politicians know this but are trying to create a racism-based wedge issue to score political points. Don’t fall for it.