{"id":371120,"date":"2025-11-11T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/371120\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:21:21","slug":"b-c-premiers-office-steps-up-cowichan-land-ruling-info-campaign-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/371120\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. premier\u2019s office steps up Cowichan land ruling info campaign – BC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The B.C. government is making another attempt to ease concerns of Richmond residents who are fearful about the impact of the Cowichan land ruling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The premier\u2019s office has dispatched a staff member to Richmond to provide information to residents.<\/p>\n

It said a door-knocking campaign is underway and some constituents have received letters.<\/p>\n

\u201cA constituent reached out to me and said that they had received a letter,\u201d Steve Kooner, MLA for Richmond-Queensborough and the official Opposition critic for attorney general, told Global News.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know anything about this actual physical letter that has been going around. And it seems that selective people are being given this letter because there\u2019s been a couple of constituents that have told me that they have received this letter, and there\u2019s been a couple that have told me that they haven\u2019t received it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kooner said that as the local MLA, he was surprised that he had not heard about the initiative.<\/p>\n

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The federal and provincial governments are appealing the B.C. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in favour of the Quw\u2019utsun Nation, or\u00a0Cowichan Nation<\/a>, that found it had \u201cestablished Aboriginal title\u201d to more than 5.7 square kilometres of land on the Fraser River in Richmond, south of Vancouver.<\/p>\n

The City of Richmond has also joined the appeal.<\/p>\n

The ruling declared Crown and city titles on the land are \u201cdefective and invalid,\u201d and the granting of private titles on it by the government unjustifiably infringed on the Cowichan title.<\/p>\n

That has created confusion and anger among homeowners in the affected area, despite\u00a0the Cowichan Tribes insisting<\/a>\u00a0it has no intention of stripping private title holders of their property.<\/p>\n

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Kooner said he would like to see the premier\u2019s office put forward solutions for affected residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis letter now talks about, is asking constituents how may your property be affected?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it affecting your mortgage? Is it affecting your financing? So now, in essence, the premier\u2019s office is acknowledging there may be issues related to private property rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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