BREAKING: The DRIPA gamble, by @IndianRevisited hymie.substack.com/p/the-dri… Former provincial court judge Brian Giesbrecht says British Columbia chiefs’ rejection of the proposed amendments to the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) helped the B.C. Conservatives win the provincial election. The chiefs’ stance, following the Gitxaala case, created legal instability and forced the NDP to abandon the amendments, ultimately contributing, he claims, to the government’s collapse. While I’m not entirely convinced this was the main reason for Eby’s premature election call, I’m sure many voters decided to throw out the NDP government yesterday because they feared the now ex-premier was wrongly turning over both Crown and private lands to the remnants of mixed-race indigenous bands of formerly wandering hunters and gatherers whose ancestors had never developed fee-simple or other exclusive property rights to the territories they occupied on a short-term or occasional basis. I also believe that even if the NDP had completed their legally mandated term as the governing party in B.C., they would have lost by an even bigger margin two years from now.