Graeme Lee Rowlands is a researcher and educator focused on the confluence of environmental, social, economic and political issues in the Columbia River Basin.
These simultaneous announcements have placed B.C. Premier John Horgan’s government in the dissonant position of championing “a new era of rights recognition, moving away from conflict and court battles” while arguing in court that one of the province’s original peoples have none. To honour B.C.’s groundbreaking movement towards truth and reconciliation, Horgan should direct his Attorney General David Eby to give up B.C.’s case against the Sinixt.
B.C. has since argued unsuccessfully against the Sinixt’s existence in three successive rounds of litigation.
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