PHARA Challenges Constitutional Validity of B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA)
After extensive deliberations and exclusion from government negotiations with the shíshálh Nation, the Pender Harbour and Area Residents Association (PHARA) board has instructed its legal counsel, McMillan LLP, to file proceedings in B.C. Supreme Court. PHARA will ask the court to rule that the DRIPA is beyond the province’s constitutional power and that Order in […]