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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • MARCH 2019


Producers question new Indigenous rights law Politicians unable to identify ramifications for ranchers when UNDRIP is implemented


by TOM WALKER


VERNON – With the province set to table legislation later this year making the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples the law of the land, many producers wonder how that’s going to affect them. BC Cattlemen’s Association general manager Kevin Boon couldn’t give members of the North Okanagan Livestock Association a clear answer when he addressed them January 16. A meeting last November between Boon, BCCA president Larry Garrett, past president Brian McKersie and BC Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation minister Scott Fraser wasn’t helpful. “We asked what is the clarification, what is the messaging that is going down to the people on the ground?” says Boon. “Basically, we didn’t get a really good answer.” UNDRIP aims to protect rights not


place in wildfire-affected areas of the province as an example of the confusion around implementation of UNDRIP. Consultations around restoration


following the Elephant Hill fire at Ashcroft and the fires in the Cariboo involve two different forest districts and several different Indigenous groups.


“Each one of them is being worked on and negotiated separately,” says Boon. “In the Cariboo where it was done very much the way it has always been done, we were able to build close to 300 kilometres of fence that were lost to the fires.” “In the Elephant Hill fire area, where it is a different process, we have some of the chiefs of the bands who are a little more aggressive. We were only able to build 27 km of fence,” he notes with frustration. “It is due basically to archeological studies and testing and the consultation process.”


covered by other human rights documents. Canada initially voted against UNDRIP, before endorsing it in 2016 in response to calls by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Ottawa and BC have both pledged to implement UNDRIP using 10 guiding principles announced last fall as part of an evolving nation-to-nation relationship. What this means isn't defined. “They are actually very wishy-washy without a lot of definition or guidance to them,” says Boon,


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BC Cattlemen’s general manager Kevin Boon says the government’s plans to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is hampering efforts to rebuild in areas of the province burned by wildfire. FILE PHOTO


noting that UNDRIP and laws in Canada are two separate things that are getting lumped together as one. "It is something that is of great concern to us


and we have brought it up at various levels of government.”


Boon pointed to ongoing consultations taking Boon explained that with the lack


of formal guidance and protocols, different negotiation methods are in play. He says that could lead to problems. “Allowing a little bit more, or doing


things differently, it is setting precedents . We can’t help but think that that precedent is going to get picked up along the way and used as a new standard for negotiations,” Boon says. “So it is very important that this messaging get back to government that fair is fair for all.”


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