The BC Conservative leader fostered fear and falsehoods in his Vancouver Sun op-ed. [David Eby has no path forward on the most consequential file shaping BC’s future]. …Reconciliation with First Nations, questions about land title, and creating economic certainty are complex and urgent questions in our province. That is why I feel the need to respond to an opinion piece by Conservative Party of BC interim leader Trevor Halford, published in the Vancouver Sun on Dec. 27. I do so as a member of Tsartlip First Nation and former member of the legislative assembly for Saanich North and the Islands with a record of seeking solutions based on inclusion, equity and justice. … Halford’s argument in his Sun piece reveals either a fundamental misunderstanding or a wilful misrepresentation of B.C.’s legal reality. DRIPA does not create Indigenous title; the Canadian justice system was recognizing it decades before.