The British Columbia government is hailing its new 5-year, 89-point plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a ‘game-changer.’
“This 89-point action plan is a roadmap for meaningful reconciliation with Indigenous people,” said a beaming Premier John Horgan. “And like any good map, it includes a coupla sideroads we can take, if you get my drift.”
The action plan includes detailed instructions for how the province will deal with things like child welfare, land and water, and policing—but is also peppered with a few opportunities for armed land invasions, like recent raids on Wet’suwet’en territory.
Officials said the action plan has been in development since the province first adopted UNDRIP in 2019 and is carefully crafted so Indigenous people do most of the heavy lifting, in a way that doesn’t frighten or make white people feel uncomfortable.