The Gitxaala Nation filed a petition in October 2021 seeking a judicial review of an online registry B.C. uses to automatically grant mineral rights
The British Columbia First Nation challenging the province over an online registry it uses to automatically grant mineral rights is “very hopeful” the B.C. Supreme Court will side with it following a two-week hearing in Vancouver, its chief councillor says.
“In their legal argument in our case, B.C. has the audacity to say that giving away mineral rights in our territory does not trigger the duty to consult. We disagree with that,” she said before the court hearing began. Jessica Clogg of West Coast Environmental Law, who is representing the nation, said the automatic grant for mineral claims breaches the Crown’s constitutional duty to consult and accommodate Gitxaaa.
UNDRIP, or the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was passed into law in B.C. in 2019.
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