Billions of dollars in settlement money. Land acknowledgements prayed before any government event. Exclusive access to once-public parks. Soon, perhaps, the court-ordered handover of private property. That’s been the government recipe for reconciliation for the past 10 years, and it’s been nothing but a disaster.

Canada must atone for its treatment of Indigenous citizens over the course of history. But that shouldn’t involve folding to the extreme demands of the Land-Back left, which has been the recipe for reconciliation thus far.

Talk of restoring “stolen land” has been popular on CBC airwaves, amongst other progressive media, for years now. But it was only in 2025, with the B.C. Supreme Court’s Cowichan Tribes ruling, which held that fee simple land ownership does not displace Aborigi

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