British Columbia Can’t Outrun the Past
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There is a spectre haunting British Columbia.
If you’ve been paying any attention to BC politics over the last eight months, the province has been whipped up into a panic over Indigenous rights.
And all of it can be traced back to one man — and no, it’s not Premier David Eby.
The man haunting the province is Joseph Trutch, BC's first Lieutenant-Governor and the individual most responsible for the fact that the province resisted signing treaties with First Nations for a century.
Instead, provincial government after…
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