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The fairness officer will be selected by cabinet, but work daily within ICBC’s hierarchy under terms and conditions to be set by the corporation. Any appeal process is better than none. But ICBC already has a fairness commissioner. It’s had one for years and the annual reports from that office suggest it’s a low-profile position that up until recently didn’t get much traffic. It operates under similar restrictions that bar investigation into payments or decisions about responsibility for crashes. Revamping the office was considered so important it was accomplished with a standalone separate bill – the Insurance Corporation Amendment Act. That bill is making its way through the legislature and Opposition Liberals appear dubious about the merits.
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David Eby Defends Decision to Back Doug Ford in Dispute with Cities
Despite intervening in court case, BC’s attorney general says negotiation offers a better way to resolve disputes with municipalities.
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. SHARES Attorney General David Eby says the distribution of powers between municipalities and the province is important enough for BC to intervene in the Ontario case.
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Even though British Columbia is intervening in a Supreme Court of Canada case in an attempt to limit the power of municipal governments, Attorney General David Eby said Monday it would be better to negotiate the relationship between cities and provincial governments.
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Brandishing a U.S. tribal-law text like holy writ, B.C. lawyer Doug White insisted Indigenous peoples can have the same in Canada their own laws, police and courts.
At a key meeting in November 2018 at the B.C. legislature involving government and Indigenous leaders, he pulled aside Attorney-General David Eby and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth and pointed across the Juan to Fuca Strait at Washington State.
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“I waved this book around,” he vividly re-enacted, “and said I want you guys to know what this is. Look across at the southern part of the Coast Salish world … and you will find Coast Salish courts with Coast Salish judges applying Coast Salish law. In the north here, it’s a completely different history of exclusion.