If you own residential, industrial or commercial property in Canada, pay attention. Your ownership is now "endangered" by this new precedent-setting Indigenous land claim ruling, currently under appeal to a higher court.  Trillions in real estate assets are at risk as this ruling created enormous uncertainty for all existing owners and future property purchasers. This will take years to wind its way through appeals courts, leaving many wondering when is "Indigenous Reconciliation" over and at what cost to Canada?  In British Columbia, anywhere from 95% (per the Wall Street Journal) to 110% of the land may be under competing, overlapping Indigenous land claims despite decades of negotiations and billions of taxpayer dollars spent on lawyers and consultants that have led to few actual treaties. 

Read the alarming letter Richmond Mayor sent to hundreds of impacted homes and businesses telling them their ownership rights are in jeopardy and the informed legal expert opinion, Dr. Bruce Pardy (Queen's University Law). "The Eby government has sought to put title and control of B.C. into Aboriginal hands," writes Dr. Pardy. For 11 years during this court battle, why did no one in government or the Cowichan Band inform impacted private property owners?  Since then, new title claims on more than half of New Brunswick, the entire city of Kamloops, BC and public lands in Coquitlam, BC have come forward.