How Joseph Trutch Set the Stage for BC’s Indigenous Policies – The Tyee
April 15, 2026
The ugly history of land dispossession continues to emerge in political decisions today.
Why does British Columbia keep arriving at the same place? Every generation, a new set of political leaders faces the same Indigenous land question, reaches the same conclusions about cost and timing and legal uncertainty and finds a way to leave the question closed.
The answer is not cynicism or coincidence. It is the architecture of the province, and one man did more than anyone else to build it.
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