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A Quiet Agreement With Big Consequences for Vancouver Property Rights

The Musqueam ‘rights recognition agreement’ treats the Musqueam Indian Band as if it were a nation state, like Canada.
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A Quiet Agreement With Big Consequences for Vancouver Property Rights
A neighbourhood in Vancouver in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
Peter Best
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If you live anywhere in Metro Vancouver, you may wish to ask what government you will pay taxes to in the future: It might well be the 1,300-member Musqueam Indian Band.

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Peter Best
Peter Best
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Peter Best is a lawyer based in Sudbury, Ontario, and author of the 2018 book "There Is No Difference: An Argument for the Abolition of the Indian Reserve System and Special Race-based Laws and Entitlements for Canada’s Indians."