Juno News - April 13, 2026


Pierre Poilievre discusses concerns over private property rights in British Columbia


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

161.08836

Word count

446

Sentence count

25


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In the wake of the ruling by the BC Supreme Court that the Cowichan First Nations are entitled to all of the land in an 800-acre radius but $1 billion worth of real estate, the Taxpayers Federation of BC is fighting back.

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00:00:00.000 Before I move on to Rogan and say goodbye, I want, you're in BC. People are really worried
00:00:06.320 about their private property. Of course, I'm sure you know all about the Cowichan decision.
00:00:10.800 Taxpayers Federation, we're, our first step is saying we need to enshrine private property
00:00:15.540 rights in the constitution. Are you hearing a lot of worry coming from homeowners in BC
00:00:20.380 and across Canada? Where are you on this stuff? Yeah, there's a lot of worry. Basically the
00:00:26.340 backstory for anyone who doesn't know, there's been a ruling by the BC British Columbia Supreme
00:00:33.580 Court, which says that the Cowichan are entitled to all of the land in an 800 acre radius, but a
00:00:46.360 billion dollars worth of real estate because of some hearsay evidence that ancestors one day
00:00:53.740 did some seasonal fishing there. It was not the place they resided, but it was where they allegedly
00:00:59.000 fished some centuries ago. And the result is that people are worried they're going to lose
00:01:07.140 their property. And it's not just Richmond, though. There are claims on almost every square
00:01:12.140 inch of British Columbia, and none of those claims are acceded because they're not covered
00:01:19.440 by treaties, which typically seed land. Like the prairies don't have to worry because they have
00:01:24.680 treaties there where the First Nations seeded the land in exchange for other things. There's no such
00:01:31.180 thing in BC. And so right now, all British Columbian private property is at risk. There are
00:01:37.140 multi-million dollar investments canceled every day because they can't be secure financing against
00:01:42.520 an unsecure collateral. And this could drag on for years. I've presented a four-point plan.
00:01:48.340 One is for the Liberal government to reverse its directive to its lawyers.
00:01:53.480 Right now, the Liberal government says to the lawyers who are arguing against this ruling in appeal that the government should not fight for fee-simple property rights, I believe because it's politically incorrect.
00:02:06.760 I say to Mark Carney, reverse that directive, fight for fee-simple property rights.
00:02:11.020 Two, don't sign any more agreements with any First Nation that does not include an explicit clarification that be simple property, your home, your land comes first in any dispute.
00:02:23.320 Three, we want Mark Carney to present his plan.
00:02:25.440 It's been almost a year since the ruling in August of last year, and we still have no plan for Mark Carney on how he's going to respond to this massive threat to private property.
00:02:33.860 And finally, we want a parliamentary committee to immediately begin studying options like the one you discussed, the legal, political and constitutional changes that might be necessary in order to protect private property in B.C. and across the land.