B.C. premier says legislation to suspend parts of DRIPA will be a confidence vote
A strategy shift away from immediately redrawing the legislation failed to quell First Nations' concerns.
British Columbia Premier David Eby says he will stake his government on suspending sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act for up to three years, calling it the "least invasive" way of mitigating its potentially sweeping and unintended impact on the province's laws.
B.C. has quietly eliminated its Climate Action Secretariat, the long-running agency that produced and implemented climate policy across government ministries.
In an email to staff viewed by The Tyee, Peter Pokorny, deputy minister of energy and climate solutions, said that “to align with key priorities” some secretariat staff would move to new subject matter, including supporting LNG, pipelines and gas fracking.
The Tyee has learned this includes at least 10 of the secretariat’s former staff members.
Ever since the 2024 election, B.C. Premier David Eby has governed in what would politely be called a protected political environment.
The economy had not yet produced a serious downturn. The opposition BC Conservative Party was busy sidelining its own leader. Donald Trump was a convenient foil in the United States, and Mark Carney an eager collaborator in Ottawa.
Canada’s first major liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant, on the B.C. coast, has been having problems with a key piece of equipment since the facility fired up in late 2024. The companies behind the project, a consortium of foreign-owned corporations, have said it will take three years to fix the problem — a timeline experts have questions about.
With Budget 2026, the BC government has prioritized deficit and debt reduction at the expense of public investment that could have made life more affordable for BC families and built a more equitable future for the next generation.
