For British Columbians, this is all the more galling given the fact that the world is screaming for B.C.’s vast mineral and oil and gas resources. For such investments, international investors want safety, predictability and political stability. This is everything B.C. could be, but instead, under David Eby, we have decided to adopt the DRIPA legislation and impose an aspirational human rights document into B.C. law, rather than use our homegrown laws and Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution to govern our relationships with Indigenous people. In the Business Council’s survey, fully 98 per cent of respondents were “very concerned” about DRIPA and disagreed that it was “creating investment certainty in B.C.” Those are numbers no one can ignore.







