If there is one takeaway from the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the federal and Alberta governments on a potential new oil pipeline to the West Coast, it’s that Canada needs to abandon the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ( UNDRIP ) and return to our own framework for reconciliation: Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.

UNDRIP is proving to be a disaster. In British Columbia, we are seeing firsthand the extraordinarily deleterious effects of UNDRIP through its legislative application in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act , which B.C. passed in 2019. The act seeks to bring the province’s laws into conformity with the principles of UNDRIP, and the effects are already proving to be detrimental to the province — an

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