Look, I'm not going to go down the stupid hole with you. No, we're not just brutes who don't know any better. We do know better, and we try to become better. The past is written, but the future is left for us to write. That's the national story of Canada. Not that it was created perfect, but that we work to better ourselves.

So, here's the crux of the issue:

The B.C. government passed DRIPA in 2019 unanimously and with celebration, making the province the first to commit to aligning its laws with the 46 articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, or UNDRIP. Eby, who was attorney general when DRIPA passed, says the need to pause sections of the act arose from a December B.C. Court of Appeal decision in the Gitxaala case about mining claims. In a 2-1 decision, three Appeal Court justices overturned a B.C. Supreme Court decision and ruled the province had incorporated UNDRIP into its laws through DRIPA and that the province’s “free entry” mineral tenure system, which allows claims to be staked online, was inconsistent with UNDRIP. The lower court had already found that the system breached the Crown’s duty to consult under the Canadian Constitution and needed to be modernized to allow for consultation with Indigenous nations.

So, sorry, no, Canada, BC, us common citizens, should be throwing away our constitution, and our laws and our national aspiration to build a future of Peace, Order and Good Government for a few shitty mines.