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Righting one of B.C.’s longest standing racist wrongs

British Columbia’s new legislature should grant B.C.’s First Peoples the right to directly elect their own MLAs as part of its pledge to enact electoral reform and offer potential lessons for Ottawa.

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BY PAUL H. LEMAY
August 7, 2017

Opinion | BY PAUL H. LEMAY | August 7, 2017

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