Plebiscite, referendum, initiative and recall are available to voters to resist future changes to the Land Act by the BC government – Fraser Institute

• In 2024, the BC government introduced amendments to the Land Act, which were withdrawn after critics said they created an Indigenous veto over the use of provincial public land.
• If this or a future government tries to use its legislative majority to re-introduce these amendments, BC law provides for four mechanisms of direct democracy that would enable voters to resist.
• The plebiscite is a popular vote, called by the cabinet on an issue of public policy. The result is non-binding, but it would be politically dangerous for a government to ignore the outcome. It would probably take a mass petition to galvanize the cabinet into calling a plebiscite.
• The referendum is like a plebiscite but is semi-binding; the cabinet must introduce legislation embodying the result of the vote, but there is no guarantee the legislation will pass.

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