How the Musqueam Agreement Amped Up the Property Rights Political War – The Tyee

March 13, 2026

Lost in the debate is that First Nations are among the largest fee simple landowners in the province.

When Premier David Eby announced March 2 that B.C. was about to “spring forward” into permanent daylight time, he felt so upbeat about the news that he danced along to Daft Punk’s “One More Time” with assembled school kids to celebrate.

But within minutes, the government’s agenda fell back into acrimonious controversy over the Cowichan decision, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, Aboriginal title and the alleged threat to fee simple private property posed by all three.