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9. See House of Commons Debates, 40th Parl, 2nd
Sess, Vol 144, No 29 (12 March 2009) at 1661
(Hon James Moore), online: <www.ourcommons.ca/
Content/House/402/Debates/029/HAN029-
E.PDF>.
10. See Canada, Standing Senate Committee on Human
Rights, Canada and the United Nations Human
Rights Council: Charting a New Course (June 2010)
at 59–60, online: <publications.gc.ca/collections/
collection_2011/sen/yc32-0/YC32-0-403-4-
eng.pdf>.
11. British Columbia, Ministry of Justice, Briefing Note
(12 December 2016), online: <docs.openinfo.gov.
bc.ca/Response_Package_MAG-2018-87968.
pdf>.
12. Elisabeth Eid & Hoori Hamboyan, “Implementation
by Canada of Its International Human Rights Treaty
Obligations: Making Sense Out of the Nonsensical”
in Oonagh E Fitzgerald, ed, The Globalized Rules of
Law: Relationships Between International and
Domestic Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006) 449 at
455–56.
13. See Ed Montigny, “Roundtable on the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(Ottawa June 25-26, 2009)” (22 July 2009), online:
<archdisabilitylaw.ca/sites/all/files/ARCH%20
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14. Ibid.
15. Letter from Premier John Horgan to Minister of
Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Murray
Rankin (26 November 2020) at 3 emphasis added,
online: <www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/government/
ministries-organizations/premier-cabinet-mlas/
minister-letter/rankin_mandate_2020.pdf>.
16. Section 4(1) of the DRIPA requires the government to
“prepare and implement an action plan to achieve
the objectives of the Declaration”. The government
has released a draft of that action plan, which is
available online: <engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/
sites/667/2021/06/Declaration_Act_-_Draft_
Action_Plan_for_consultation.pdf>. The draft correctly
notes that “while closely linked to work under
section 3 of the Declaration Act to ensure laws are
consistent with the UN Declaration, the action plan is
a separate and distinct obligation” (ibid at 2). Some
legislative changes contemplated by the draft action
plan are now being brought forward. For example,
on November 17, 2021, the government announced
two new bills, one amending the B.C. Human Rights
Code to add Indigenous identity as a protected
ground against discrimination, and another to
amend the B.C. Interpretation Act to add a general
non-derogation clause for Aboriginal rights and an
interpretive direction that B.C. laws and regulations
must be read so as to be consistent with the Declaration.
Important as these legislative initiatives are,
they are at most first steps toward achieving the consistency
required by DRIPA s. 3.
17. Declaration, supra note 1, art 39.
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