B.C. MLA’s proposal to ban school land acknowledgements fails first reading

Members of B.C.’s Legislative Assembly voted 88 to 5 against the “Land Acknowledgement Prohibition Act,” proposed by former Conservative MLA Dallas Brodie, which aimed to ban land acknowledgements by publicly funded employees. Critics, including MLA Á’a:líya Warbus and Minister Spencer Chandra Herbert, argued that the bill undermined reconciliation efforts with Indigenous peoples and dismissed the importance of acknowledging their history.

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