Houses and farmland along No. 6 Road and Country Meadows Golf Course, which fall within the boundaries of a Cowichan Nation aboriginal title claim, in Richmond, B.C., on Aug. 22, 2025. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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Commentary
The worst thing that can happen to a property owner isn’t a flood or a leaky foundation. It’s learning that you don’t own your property—that an aboriginal band does.
Peter Best is a lawyer based in Sudbury, Ontario, and author of the 2018 book “There Is No Difference: An Argument for the Abolition of the Indian Reserve System and Special Race-based Laws and Entitlements for Canada’s Indians.”
