B.C. Premier David Eby, centre, speaks in Surrey, B.C. on Nov. 28, 2025. The Canadian Press/Ethan Cairns
B.C. Premier David Eby says his government will amend the province’s adoption of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), after the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled the legislation must be the “interpretive lens” for laws in the province affecting indigenous people.
The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled Dec. 5 that the mineral claim staking system in British Columbia violates the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), the provincial adoption of UNDRIP into B.C. law.
