Newsletter Vlog #20

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Timestamps

00:00 Introduction & the Finns

00:27 Indigenous Rights & Reconciliation

01:46 Legislative Session Highlights

02:26 Constituent Spotlight: Deanna Woods and Regenerock

04:07 Advocacy: Reducing Tobacco Sales in Pharmacies & Constituent Spotlight: Leo Levasseur

05:09 Climate Action & Constituent Spotlight: Tannis Wightman

05:57 Happiness & Community Wellbeing

06:34 Summer Events & Outreach

WEEK OF MAY 18th🏛️IN THE HOUSE

Gov Bills

  • Bill 9 FOI

    • In Committee Stage

  • Bill 17 Local Gov Code of Conduct

    • 2nd Reading

  • Bill 18 Local Gov Parental Leave

    • no debate started

  • Bill 20 K'omoks Act

    • In Committee Stage

  • Bill 21 Kitselas Act - no debate started

Estimates

  • Completed: JEG, MOTT, PSSG

  • In Progress: FIN (finance)

Private Members’ Bills

  • M205 (Dew) motion on financial literacy courses for MLAs (amended by gov) will continue debate on Monday

  • M207 (Morisette) motion on independent movie theatres and liquor started debate,

  • Conservative MLA Dhaliwal introduced a motion during regular business (not Private Members Time) to recognize the 1984 Sikh genocide

    • Needed unanimous support from the house to start debate, but didn’t receive it

WEEK OF MAY 18TH

🗣️Speeches in the house, in order of occurrence:

WEEK OF MAY 18th - IN THE NEWS

Supreme Court accepts BC Government appeal of mineral claims regime a-la DRIPA. Green Party member of the legislature Rob Botterell said if government had done the work to align provincial laws with DRIPA, neither the initial court decision nor the government's appeal would have been necessary. "It is ironic that DRIPA was intended to help move First Nations and government out of the courts, yet the government is now choosing to fight a court decision instead of bringing outdated laws into alignment with DRIPA," he said. (Canadian Press) 

No, Your Property Is Not at Risk After the Cowichan Decision. Anxiety about the threat to fee simple private property posed by Aboriginal rights is so deep in British Columbia that Green MLA Rob Botterell, Saanich North and the Islands, was able to draw more than 100 people to a mid-afternoon public meeting Saturday, a sunny long-weekend Saturday in the middle of Stanley Cup playoffs. (The Tyee)

WEEK OF MAY 18TH - LET’S GET SOCIAL

WEEK OF MAY 25th -🏛️In The House

Gov Bills

  • Passed:

    • Bill 9 FOI: Speaker broke the tie, after Boultbee and Sturko flipped back to opposition after supporting earlier stages

    • Bill 20 K'omoks Act: Greens and 5 Conservatives supported

  • Delayed until the next sitting

    • Bill 17 Local Gov Code of Conduct: 2nd Reading started, MLA Valeriote spoke in support

    • Bill 18 Local Gov Parental Leave: No debate started

    • Bill 21 Kitselas Treaty Act: No debate started

WEEK OF MAY 25th: In The News

A commentary from Rob Botterell, MLA for Saanich North and the Islands, on the Cowichan Decision and the recent DRIPA panel featuring Geoff Plant, attorney general under the B.C. Liberals from 2001 to 2005 and counsel in the ­Cowichan case; Andrew ­Petter, attorney general under the B.C. NDP in 2000 and former ­president of Simon Fraser ­University; and Adam Olsen, f­ormer Green MLA and a ­member of Tsartlip First Nation. (Times Colonist). Watch the full panel on YouTube here. 

B.C. Green Party member of the legislature Rob Botterell, a lawyer who has worked with First Nations, warned against reading too much into the court's refusal to hear the New Brunswick case. "The important thing is, is that the New Brunswick case is New Brunswick specific, and you can't necessarily take anything from the Supreme Court of Canada refusing to hear an appeal in terms of what is happening with the Cowichan case. They are totally different facts and settings." (Canadian Press)

WEEK OF MAY 25th

🗣️Speeches in the house, in order of occurrence:

WEEK OF MAY 25th

LET’S GET SOCIAL