Party leaders turn attention to First Nations on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
The federal government has been “absent” and failing to live up to commitments to First Nations on housing and clean water, and a B.C. Conservative government would fix the problems, then send Ottawa the bill, Leader John Rustad said Monday.
NDP Leader David Eby took his family, all dressed in orange, to an Orange Shirt Day ceremony at the University of B.C. He said the provincial legislation had created “friction” and his government would remove and replace laws that get in the way of full economic reconciliation. “The acceleration of industrialized destruction of our homelands, our territories, is nothing to cheer about,” he said. “It’s not economic reconciliation. It’s economic exploitation.”Rustad said a Conservative government would create a loan guarantee program for First Nations to allow full participation in large forestry projects.
Rustad, wearing an orange shirt pin on his lapel, was accompanied at Cultus Lake by Sq’ewlets First Nation Chief Joseph Chapman and Indigenous candidates Chris Sankey and A’aliya Warbus,
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