B.C.’s unanswered land questions can no longer be ignored

B.C.’s unanswered land questions can no longer be ignored EDITORIAL 13 JULY 2026 i Five decades of court rulings have moved Aboriginal title from legal abstraction to the urban doorstep—and the province's legislators have left the pen in judges' hands EDITORIAL BOARD ARTICLE SUMMARY KEY STATS Ninety-five percent of British Columbia’s land mass was assumed by the Crown without negotiation, without agreement, and without legal extinguishment of First Nations title. That fact, dating to the province’s entry into Confederation in 1871, sits beneath every question B.C. now struggles to answer: who…