An Okanagan Indian Band member says the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) adopted by the B.C. government means he doesn't need a B.C.-issued licence to sell cannabis on his First Nation's traditional territory. became Canada's first province to table a bill implementing UNDRIP, which enshrines the Indigenous peoples' rights to freely pursue their economic development. Cory Brewer says he's working to allow First Nations businesses to sell cannabis on their traditional territories without a licence from the provincial government. Yvan Guy Larocque, a Vancouver-based lawyer specializing in Indigenous law who isn't connected to Brewer, says Indigenous rights to self-determination as stipulated in UNDRIP are collective rights, not individual rights as Brewer suggests.

Source: CBC News March 26, 2021 01:07 UTC