EDITORIAL · THE 15 OCTOBER LEAK WASN’T THE FIRST TIME · THE 2024 SHÍSHÁLH AGREEMENT

In 2024 NDP ministers Murray Rankin and Nathan Cullen also signed Eby’s $104-million land deal with the shíshálh Nation 36 days before that election was called too. Voters weren’t told until three months after it.

The plan for about 400 parcels of Crown land leaked on 15 October could be seen only by people who signed non-disclosure agreements that run through the campaign, Rob Shaw reports. It was not the first time. On 16 August 2024, NDP ministers Murray Rankin and Nathan Cullen signed an agreement with the shíshálh Nation on the Sunshine Coast: $79.4 million over five years plus a promise to seek $25 million more for housing, which together make the $104 million reported, and six square kilometres of Crown land. The Province announced it on 29 January 2025, more than three months after British Columbians voted, and its own Q&A now says it “should have found a way to announce the renewal before the election.”

Backcountry Coalition · 16 October 2026 Email

On 15 October, Northern Beat published leaked Ministry of Forests documents on a plan for about 400 parcels of Crown land committed for transfer under treaty and reconciliation agreements. Rob Shaw reports that anyone who wanted to see them “was forced by government to sign a non-disclosure agreement to remain quiet during the election period.”¹ It was not the first time. In the same column, Shaw reports that just before the 2024 election the NDP “struck a secret deal” with the shíshálh Nation on the Sunshine Coast and “withheld details from voters until after the election was over.”¹ The government’s own records bear out the timing. The agreement is dated 16 August 2024.² The election was called on 21 September and held on 19 October.¹¹ The Province announced the agreement for the first time on 29 January 2025.⁴⁵

Nine weeks before an election, two NDP ministers committed public money and public land, and the public heard nothing until the new cabinet had been sworn in. The Province has since admitted, in writing and in the legislature, that it should have found a way to tell people before they voted.⁶⁷ The agreement itself contains no term that protects public access to the land it promises.²

01 This is the second election in a row in which the NDP government has not told voters about its Crown land agreements before the vote

2026. The Ministry of Forests drew up a plan for about 400 parcels of Crown land committed for transfer under treaty and reconciliation agreements. Rob Shaw reports that anyone who wanted to see it “was forced by government to sign a non-disclosure agreement to remain quiet during the election period,” and that the plan was not in the NDP’s forestry platform.¹ The public learned of it only because Northern Beat published the documents on 15 October, nine days before the election scheduled for 24 October.¹¹⁹ We set out what those documents say, and leave out, on public access in “Leaked: Eby’s government plans to transfer about 400 parcels of Crown land to First Nations”.²⁰

2024. Ministers Murray Rankin and Nathan Cullen signed the shíshálh agreement on 16 August, 36 days before the election was called.²¹¹ The Province announced it on 29 January 2025, more than three months after British Columbians voted.⁴

Two elections, two sets of Crown land agreements. Both times, the government did not tell voters before the vote.

02 What was signed

The document is titled “Foundation Agreement: Addendum Regarding Medium-Term Milestones”. It renews the 2018 Foundation Agreement, the Province’s first comprehensive reconciliation agreement with a First Nation, and sets out what the two governments will do over the next five years.²³ The Province signed it through two ministers.²

Page 2 of the agreement. Boxed: Dated August 16, 2024; and represented by the Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation and the Minister of Water Land and Resource Stewardship. — The date, and who signed for the Province: the Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation and the Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship.² Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

In August 2024 those ministers were Murray Rankin and Nathan Cullen, and their signatures are on page 28.² Neither was a minister by the time the public was told. Rankin did not run again, and Cullen lost his seat in Stikine.¹³

The Province's signature block on page 28: Signed on behalf of Government of British Columbia. Nathan Cullen, Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, and Murray Rankin, KC, Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, each with a signature; both names are boxed. — Nathan Cullen and Murray Rankin signed on behalf of the Government of British Columbia. The Nation’s chief and council signed above them on the same page.² Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

The land

The agreement commits the two governments to try to identify 100 hectares of provincial Crown land for cultural use and 500 hectares for economic development, to be transferred to the Nation in fee simple. That is six square kilometres.²³ The land is to come from the shíshálh swiya, the Nation’s territory, which covers 514,520 hectares of the Sunshine Coast.⁵

Page 9 of the agreement. Boxed: section 3.7, Within 18 months of the Effective Date, we will work together to attempt to identify and reach agreement on 500 hectares of provincial Crown lands within shishalh swiya to be transferred to shishalh Nation or a Designated Company in fee simple for economic development purposes; and the opening of section 3.8, which requires engagement with local government and a consideration of the interests listed below it, (a) to (f). — Section 3.6, on the page before, sets out the 100 hectares for cultural use. Section 3.8 lists what must be considered before the land is chosen; public access is not on the list.² Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

The agreement also commits the Province to negotiate recognition of shíshálh Aboriginal title, and to seek cabinet approval within five years to negotiate exclusive shíshálh decision-making on a subject still to be chosen.² The Province said in March 2026 that title negotiations had not started.³

The money

The Province’s own figure for the agreement is $79 million over five years. In the legislature on 30 April 2025, Minister Christine Boyle put it at “up to $79.4 million”: $47.58 million for economic development, $15 million for a cultural centre, $8.83 million for implementation and further negotiations, and smaller amounts for restoration, water, language, monitoring and studies.⁷³ She then pointed to section 9.2, which she said “also commits to seeking $25 million in provincial funding” for shíshálh housing.⁷

Page 16 of the agreement, Part 9, Housing and Climate Resiliency. Boxed: 9.2, The Province commits to seeking $25 million in Provincial funding for shishalh Nation to address shishalh Nation housing needs. — The $25 million is a commitment to seek funding, with climate-resiliency programs as the fallback under section 9.3. It is on top of the $79.4 million.² Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

Together that comes to $104.4 million, the figure that Shaw and the Vancouver Sun’s Vaughn Palmer report as $104 million.¹⁸ It does not include a further commitment. The Province also agreed to try to buy certain privately owned lands of cultural importance to the Nation, and it says it does “not have an estimate of the potential cost” of protecting them.²⁶

03 Signed in August, announced in January

Here is the sequence, from the Province’s own records.

From signature to announcement, drawn to scale

16 Aug 2024Signed21 SepWrit19 OctVote18 NovNew cabinet29 Jan 2025Announced

Signed, not announcedCampaignAfter the vote

Each segment is drawn in proportion to the days it covers: 36 days from the signature to the writ, 28 days of campaign, and 102 days from the vote to the announcement, 166 days in all.²¹¹¹²⁴

16 Aug 2024
Murray Rankin and Nathan Cullen sign the agreement for B.C.²
Aug 2024
The Province and the Nation announce changes to the Sunshine Coast dock management plan, with Cullen quoted. The release does not mention the agreement, which “reaffirms” those changes.¹⁴⁴
21 Sep 2024
The election is called. The agreement has not been announced.¹¹⁶
19 Oct 2024
British Columbians vote.¹¹
18 Nov 2024
A new cabinet is sworn in. Rankin and Cullen are no longer ministers.¹²¹³
29 Jan 2025
The Province announces the agreement in Sechelt. The release gives no dollar figure and no signing date.⁴
20 & 31 Mar 2025
The Province holds two online information sessions and receives 329 questions.³
30 Apr 2025
Minister Christine Boyle confirms the 16 August date in the legislature and says the government “could have found a way to announce the renewal before the election.”⁷
8 Oct 2025
The Province’s final Q&A: “We acknowledge that we should have found a way to announce the renewal before the election.”⁶
15 Oct 2026
Rob Shaw reports the 2024 agreement as part of a pattern, alongside non-disclosure agreements that run through this campaign.¹
24 Oct 2026
The general election is scheduled for this date.¹⁹

When the announcement finally came on 29 January 2025, it did not say when the agreement had been signed, and it gave no dollar figure.⁴ The fact sheet published the same day answered a different question first: whether this was a new agreement. It said it was not.⁵

The heading of the Province's fact sheet: shishalh Nation, British Columbia Foundation Agreement Renewal Fact Sheet. Boxed: Published January 29, 2025. — Published the day of the announcement, five months after the signing.⁵ Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

From the fact sheet, under the heading Is this a new agreement between shishalh Nation and B.C.?: No, this is not a new agreement, it is a renewal of the existing long-term Foundation Agreement that was signed by shishalh Nation and the Province in 2018. That sentence is boxed. — The renewal carried new money, six square kilometres of land and new commitments on title and decision-making.⁵² Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

A renewal was expected; the 2018 agreement provided for one.³ What was not expected was the timing. The renewal carried new money, new land and new commitments on title and decision-making, and it was signed by ministers who then went through a campaign in which none of it was announced.²⁴⁶

Three explanations

The government has explained the delay in three ways. Boyle told the Globe and Mail in February 2025 that the announcement had been held back to allow time for a celebration with the Nation.¹⁰ At an online session in March 2025, deputy minister Tom McCarthy said “we simply ran out of time”, according to Palmer.⁸ The Province’s written answer, which Boyle repeated in the legislature, is that the renewal was announced “as soon as we could after Ministers were appointed and briefed after the election”.⁶⁷

None of the three accounts for the 36 days between the signature and the writ. Conservative critic Scott McInnis put exactly that to Boyle on 30 April 2025: the ministry “had five weeks between the signing and the drop of the writ.”⁷ The government’s own written answer concedes the point.

Page 2 of the Province's Q&A, under 1. Announcement timing. The question: Why were details of the agreement renewal not made public before it was signed? Among the answers, boxed: We acknowledge that we should have found a way to announce the renewal before the election. — Boyle said the same in the legislature on 30 April 2025: “we could have found a way to announce the renewal before the election.”⁶⁷ Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

“We acknowledge that we should have found a way to announce the renewal before the election.”

Province of British Columbia · Q&A on the shíshálh agreement · October 2025

The questions the Province published beside that answer show how the delay landed on the Sunshine Coast. “How come you kept your talks a secret till after the election?” one resident asked. Another asked whether any other agreements had been signed but not yet announced.⁶ Randene Neill, who won the riding for the NDP in 2024, told the March session that she had not known about the agreement as a candidate, Palmer reported.⁸

04 What happens to public access

The six square kilometres are to pass in fee simple, on “the applicable ministry’s standard terms of transfer” and on an “as-is where-is basis”.² Before the land is chosen, the agreement requires engagement with local government and a consideration of third-party interests, other Nations’ interests, land suitability and existing authorized uses. It says nothing about public access.²

Six square kilometres of Crown land

The agreement promises the land. It does not promise the public anything about getting onto it.

Public access

Sections 3.6 to 3.11 of the agreement

NOT WRITTEN IN

No term protects public access to the six square kilometres.

Section 3.8 requires engagement with local government and “a consideration of” third-party interests and existing authorized uses. Access is not named.

The Province says it “will take that into account” when it negotiates the transfer terms.

²⁶

Which land

The 18-month window from August 2024

NOT IDENTIFIED

No parcel has been publicly identified.

The Province’s update of 23 March 2026 reports work on land-use planning and docks. It does not say that any parcel has been chosen.

The agreement allowed 18 months to “attempt to identify” the land.

²³

What the land is worth

Minister Christine Boyle, 30 April 2025

NOT DISCLOSED

Transfer agreements “don’t typically include the assessed value of the land”.

Boyle said they include detailed maps. Asked to disclose the value, she said she would take the suggestion under advisement.

The cost of the redacted private lands has no estimate either.

⁷⁶

The 2018 precedent

shíshálh Land Transfer Agreement, 2018

HIGHWAYS ONLY

Highways on one parcel stayed Crown Corridor, up to 38 metres wide.

The 2018 transfer contains no public-access term. Roads not held out as corridor passed with the land.

The 2024 agreement points to “standard terms of transfer”.

¹⁵²

Sunshine Coast residents asked whether the Nation would be able to restrict recreation access on Crown land. The Province’s answer was a promise to consider it.⁶

Page 26 of the Province's Q&A, the answer to question 18, access to Crown lands. Boxed: We recognize that interests may include maintaining public access to certain parcels, and we will take that into account when negotiating the terms of the land transfers. — The same answer warns that the joint land-use plan “may result in changes to permitted uses and access to Crown lands.”⁶ Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

Taking something into account is not a guarantee. The Province has stated the general rule elsewhere: in its June 2026 Q&A on land transfers in the northeast, it says that after transfer “the land is no longer public.”¹⁷ The closest precedent on the Sunshine Coast is the 2018 shíshálh land transfer. It kept the highways on one parcel as Crown Corridor, no more than 38 metres wide, and it contains no public-access term.¹⁵

05 Confidential by design

This year, Shaw reports, anyone who wanted to see the government’s land-returns documents “was forced by government to sign a non-disclosure agreement to remain quiet during the election period.”¹ No record found for the 2024 shíshálh agreement shows anyone being asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement. The records do show how much of the agreement the Province still keeps to itself.

Kept confidentialWhat the Province has not published, in its own documents and words

Four things the public still cannot see

The negotiating mandates. Asked whether the public can see how such agreements are formed, Boyle answered: “The simple answer is that no…. The agreements are public, but … our negotiation mandates are confidential to protect the public interest.”⁷
Parts of the agreement. The published copy blacks out the names of two groups of lands and both of its map schedules.²
A side agreement. Section 3.3 refers to a “Lands Funding Agreement”, its name partly blacked out. It is not among the documents the Province has published for the renewal. Palmer reports that it “was also kept confidential.”²³⁹
The cost. The Province says it has no estimate yet of what protecting the redacted lands will cost.⁶ The 2018 Foundation Agreement already made the calculation of one payment “confidential in nature”.¹⁶

Page 7 of the agreement, Part 3, Lands. The names of the lands are blacked out throughout sections 3.1 to 3.3, as is part of section 3.2 describing what the Province has provided. Boxed: be returned to the Province in accordance with the [blacked out] Lands Funding Agreement. — The redactions are in the copy the Province published. Section 3.3 names a separate Lands Funding Agreement.² Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

Page 29 of the agreement, headed Schedule A. The schedule's title and the whole of the map below it are covered by a black redaction box. — Schedule A, the map of the first group of lands, is blacked out in full. Schedule B, on the next page, is too.² Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

The Province gives a reason for the redactions. The lands are privately owned, and the Province says they are “extremely sensitive cultural sites”.⁶

Page 17 of the Province's Q&A, 10. Redactions in the Foundation Agreement renewal. Boxed: Information on the current property owner or owners is being kept confidential, so as not to divulge the location of the lands being discussed, given that they are extremely sensitive cultural sites. Also boxed: We do not have an estimate of the potential cost to protect some of these parcels yet. — The reason for the redactions, and the admission that there is no cost estimate.⁶ Source: gov.bc.ca (PDF)

Protecting sacred sites is a good reason to withhold a map. It is not a reason to keep a $104-million agreement from voters for five months, and the Province has conceded as much.⁶⁷

06 Who decided

Two ministers signed the agreement, and a third announced and defended it. All three served in David Eby’s cabinet.²⁴⁷

Murray Rankin

Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, 2020–2024

Their part

Signed the agreement for B.C. on 16 August 2024.

His ministry leads the negotiations; questions still go to its coast negotiations office.³

He did not seek re-election, and left cabinet on 18 November 2024.¹³

Photo: Province of British Columbia

Not on the 2026 ballot

Nathan Cullen

Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, 2022–2024

Their part

Co-signed the agreement the same day.

In August 2024 he announced the dock-plan changes that the agreement “reaffirms”, without mentioning the agreement.¹⁴⁴

He lost his seat in Stikine on 19 October 2024.¹³

Photo: Province of British Columbia

Not on the 2026 ballot

Christine Boyle

Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation from November 2024; now Housing and Municipal Affairs

Their part

Announced the agreement on 29 January 2025 and defended the timing.

“We could have found a way to announce the renewal before the election.”⁷

“Our negotiation mandates are confidential to protect the public interest.”⁷

Photo: Province of British Columbia

On the ballot: Vancouver-Little Mountain · 24 Oct¹⁹

David Eby was premier when the agreement was signed and when it was announced. In May 2025, Opposition Leader John Rustad told him in the legislature that the agreement had been “kept secret from the people in British Columbia”. Eby’s answers addressed exclusive decision-making and docks, not the timing.¹⁸

Eby and Boyle are both candidates in the election scheduled for 24 October.¹⁹ Each can say before then whether the next agreement will be public before the vote.

07 What to ask the candidates

The shíshálh agreement has been signed. What is still open is how the next government makes and discloses agreements like it. The election is scheduled for 24 October.¹⁹

Three commitments to ask for

Publish every land and reconciliation agreement when it is signed. Never hold one back through an election campaign.
Put public access in writing. No Crown land should be transferred without published terms for the roads, trails and shoreline it contains.
Disclose the full cost. Publish the land’s assessed value and every side agreement, withholding only what is needed to protect sacred sites.

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In 2024 NDP ministers Murray Rankin and Nathan Cullen also signed Eby’s $104-million land deal with the shíshálh Nation 36 days before that election was called too. Voters weren’t told until three months after it.

The Crown land plan leaked on 15 October could be seen only under non-disclosure agreements that run through the campaign, Rob Shaw reports in Northern Beat. It was not the first time.

They signed it on 16 August 2024: $79.4 million over five years plus a promise to seek $25 million more for housing, which is the $104 million reported, and six square kilometres of Crown land. The Province announced it on 29 January 2025.

The Province’s own Q&A now says: “We acknowledge that we should have found a way to announce the renewal before the election.”

The agreement contains no term protecting public access to the land. Parts of it are blacked out, and a side agreement on funding has not been published.

Ask your candidates to publish every land agreement when it is signed, to put public access in writing, and to disclose the full cost.

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Sources

↩ Rob Shaw, Northern Beat, “Rob Shaw: Secret documents reveal BC NDP government ‘Land Returns’ plan for First Nations,” column (opinion), 15 October 2026: the passage on the 2024 shíshálh agreement (“Just before the 2024 election, the governing NDP struck a secret deal … but withheld details from voters until after the election was over”), and the report that anyone who wanted to see the 2026 documents “was forced by government to sign a non-disclosure agreement to remain quiet during the election period.” northernbeat.ca
↩ Province of British Columbia and shíshálh Nation, “Foundation Agreement: Addendum Regarding Medium-Term Milestones”, dated 16 August 2024, 44 pages, published copy with redactions: page 2 (date and parties), sections 3.1 to 3.5 (redacted lands and the Lands Funding Agreement), 3.6 to 3.11 (100 and 500 hectares of Crown land, engagement, standard terms of transfer), 4.1 (economic development payments), 9.2 (“commits to seeking $25 million” for housing), Parts 10, 11 and 13 (decision-making and title), 18.10 (contribution toward any final agreement or compensation), the signature page (page 28) and Schedules A and B (fully redacted). The published copy is a scanned image. gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Province of British Columbia, “shíshálh Nation – British Columbia Foundation Agreement” web page, read 15 October 2026: the funding list for the 2024 renewal, the six square kilometres (one for cultural use, five for economic development), the documents published for the renewal, the information sessions of 20 and 31 March 2025 (329 questions), and the implementation update of 23 March 2026 (“Negotiations on shíshálh Nation’s Aboriginal title have not started at this time”). gov.bc.ca
↩ Province of British Columbia, news release 2025IRR0003-000057, “shíshálh Nation, B.C. renew landmark reconciliation agreement”, Sechelt, 29 January 2025, quoting Minister Christine Boyle, Minister Randene Neill and lhe hiwus Yalxwemult (Chief Lenora Joe). It gives no dollar figure and no signing date. news.gov.bc.ca
↩ Province of British Columbia, “shíshálh Nation – British Columbia Foundation Agreement Renewal Fact Sheet”, published 29 January 2025 (later updated 6 March 2025): “No, this is not a new agreement – it is a renewal”; the swiya covers 514,520 hectares. gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Province of British Columbia, “shíshálh Nation – British Columbia Foundation Agreement and shíshálh swiya Dock Management Plan: Online Information Session Questions and Answers”, published 15 May 2025, updated 8 October 2025, 83 pages: question 1, announcement timing (page 2); question 2, engagement and the SCRD (pages 3 and 4); question 10, redactions (page 17); question 18, access to Crown lands (pages 25 and 26). Submitted questions are reproduced unedited. gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Hansard, B.C. Legislative Assembly, Issue 51, 30 April 2025 (afternoon), estimates of the Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation: Minister Christine Boyle and Scott McInnis on the signing date, the timing of the announcement, the $79.4 million, section 9.2, the six square kilometres, the land’s value and the confidentiality of negotiation mandates. leg.bc.ca
↩ Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun, “B.C. NDP sticking to secretive ways, if replies to complaints over shíshálh deal are any indication,” 20 August 2025, as syndicated on Yahoo News Canada: the $104 million, the information session of 20 March 2025, Randene Neill’s and deputy minister Tom McCarthy’s remarks there. This is the article Shaw links. ca.news.yahoo.com
↩ Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun, “‘Nothing to fear’ from Sunshine Coast land deal: NDP,” 21 August 2025, as syndicated on Yahoo News Canada: the redacted schedules and the separate Lands and Funding Agreement, “which was also kept confidential.” ca.news.yahoo.com
↩ Justine Hunter, The Globe and Mail, “B.C. government announces First Nations land pact on Sunshine Coast, months after deal was inked,” February 2025: the 16 August signing, Minister Christine Boyle’s explanation of the delay, and the Pender Harbour and Area Residents Association’s response. theglobeandmail.com
↩ 2024 British Columbia general election, Wikipedia, read 15 October 2026, citing Elections BC: writ issued 21 September 2024; general election held 19 October 2024. en.wikipedia.org
↩ Province of British Columbia, news release 2024PREM0061-001579, “Premier’s new cabinet will be sworn in Nov. 18”, November 2024. news.gov.bc.ca
↩ Wikipedia, “Murray Rankin” (Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, 26 November 2020 to 18 November 2024; MLA until 21 September 2024; did not seek re-election) and “Nathan Cullen” (Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, 7 December 2022 to 18 November 2024; unseated in Stikine in the 2024 election), read 15 October 2026. Rankin · Cullen
↩ Province of British Columbia and shíshálh Nation, “Updates to management plan provide certainty for Sunshine Coast dock owners”, August 2024, quoting Minister Nathan Cullen and lhe hiwus Lenora Joe, as reprinted by Boating Industry Canada. The release does not mention the Foundation Agreement renewal. boatingindustry.ca
↩ shíshálh Nation Land Transfer Agreement, 4 October 2018, section 7.3: highways on the DL 7613 Lands are Crown Corridors, excluded from the transfer and “no more than 38 metres wide”; the agreement contains no public-access term. gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ shíshálh Nation – British Columbia Foundation Agreement, 2018, published copy with redactions: section 4.31 and Schedule F, section 2 (“Confidentiality Provisions”: the calculation of one payment is “confidential in nature”). gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Treaty Land Entitlement and Site C Agreement Land Transfers in Northeast B.C., Part 2: Questions & Answers, updated June 2026, page 12: “After transfer, the land is no longer public.” engage.gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Hansard, B.C. Legislative Assembly, Issue 74, 29 May 2025 (afternoon), estimates of the Office of the Premier: John Rustad on the agreement “kept secret from the people in British Columbia”, and Premier David Eby’s answers on exclusive decision-making and docks. leg.bc.ca
↩ Province of British Columbia, Cabinet ministers, updated 8 September 2026 (Christine Boyle, Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs); and Elections BC, 2026 Provincial General Election candidates (David Eby, Vancouver-Point Grey; Christine Boyle, Vancouver-Little Mountain; Randene Neill, Powell River-Sunshine Coast; all BC NDP), with Final Voting Day scheduled for 24 October 2026. gov.bc.ca · elections.bc.ca (CSV)
↩ Backcountry Coalition, “Leaked: Eby’s government plans to transfer about 400 parcels of Crown land to First Nations. To see the plan, you had to sign an NDA and stay silent until after the vote.”, 15 October 2026. backcountry.cx

Every source was read on 15 October 2026. The 2024 agreement was read in the scanned copy the Province publishes. Portraits: Province of British Columbia.