First Nations leaders in B.C. are urging B.C. NDP MLAs to reject Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend some sections of the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), as the government prepares to bring the proposal forward as a confidence vote.

At a news conference in Vancouver on Friday, members of the First Nations Leadership Council said the move would undermine Indigenous rights, calling it a “unilateral betrayal” of reconciliation commitments.

The premier has described the proposed suspension as a temporary measure to address what he describes as growing legal uncertainty following a recent B.C. Court of Appeal ruling involving DRIPA.