Supreme Court of Canada to hear B.C. challenge over mineral rights and DRIPA – CBC
May 21, 2026
The provincial government passed DRIPA into law in 2019
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear British Columbia’s appeal of a ruling that found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims regime are “inconsistent.”
The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled in December that the provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) should be “properly interpreted” to incorporate UNDRIP into the laws of B.C. with immediate legal effect.
At the time, a statement from the Gitxaala Nation, one of two nations challenging the law, called the decision precedent-setting.
