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The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP or DOTROIP [1]) is a legally non-binding United Nations resolution passed by the United Nations in 2007 that delineates and defines the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, including their ownership rights, cultural and ceremonial expression, identity, language, employment, health, education, and other issues.
The Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform was created by the government of British Columbia, Canada to investigate changes to the provincial electoral system.On October 25, 2004, the citizens' assembly proposed replacing the province's existing first past the post (FPTP) system with BC-STV, a single transferable vote (STV) system.
No spending limits were imposed on referendum advertising sponsors" (Elections BC 2005: 36). Two groups did form in an attempt to fill the information gap and influence the outcome. In support of the STV proposal was a group called YES-STV led organizationally by a local advocacy group called Fair Voting BC.
British Columbia is a secondary jurisdiction of Canada, a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy in the Westminster tradition; a premier—David Eby of the New Democratic Party since 2022—is the head of government and is invited by the Crown to form a government after securing the confidence of the Legislative Assembly ...
In May 1993 the Treaty Commission allocated approximately CA$432 million in negotiation support funding to more than 50 First Nations: $345.6 million in the form of loans and $86.4 million in the form of contributions. [5] Of that money the Treaty Commission's total operating costs from 1993 to March 31, 2009, spent $34.2 million. [5]
A referendum on electoral reform took place by mail-in ballot between October 22 and December 7, 2018, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. 61.3 percent of voters supported maintaining the first-past-the-post voting system rather than switching to a proportional representation voting system, which was supported by 38.7 percent of voters.
It also brought conformity between BC estates law, and rest of Canada. [ 3 ] Before Justice Elaine Adair on 17 July 2019, [ 4 ] Section 60 was employed successfully by Trevor Todd, an estate litigation lawyer, to broaden its mandate; he thereby instructed the court to re-apportion a Sikh estate, in which the original parental will left the lion ...
Another Treaty was ratified outside the BC Treaty process in 1999, the Nisga'a Treaty. [11] In May 1993 the Treaty Commission allocated approximately $432 million in negotiation support funding to more than 50 First Nations- $345.6 million in the form of loans and $86.4 million in the form of contributions. [12]