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November 13, 2025

UBCIC Objects to Canada’s Latest Addition of B.C. LNG and Related Resource Developments to Major Projects List

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/ Vancouver, B.C. – November 13, 2025) Today, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed that the Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal and the associated Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline in northwestern B.C.,  and the North Coast Transmission Line, along with four other projects across the country, are being referred to the Major Projects Office for consideration. These projects are being advanced under the One Canada Economy Act (OCEA), legislation that gives Ottawa sweeping authority to fast-track resource and infrastructure projects deemed to be “in the national interest.”

Budget 2025: Canada Fails to Fulfil Duties To Resolve Specific Claims

November 12, 2025

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.)) The Union of BC Indian Chiefs BC Specific Claims Working Group (BCSCWG) is deeply concerned about  Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Budget 2025, released November 4, which pushes aside Canada’s legal responsibility to resolve First Nations’ historical claims in favour of a regressive, ill-informed, and hasty approach to advancing “major projects” and economic development on unceded First Nations’ lands.

News Release
November 10, 2025

UBCIC Recognizes 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and Calls for Strengthened Action to Protect B.C.’s Rivers of Ice

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/ Vancouver, B.C. – November 10, 2025) The Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) is formally recognizing 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP), as declared by the United Nations General Assembly, and the launch of the Decade of Action for Cryospheric Science (2025–2034).

News Release 
November 3, 2025

First Nations Leadership Council Call for the Immediate Resignation of MLA Dallas Brodie

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) calls for the immediate resignation of MLA Dallas Brodie and rejects the deeply disturbed anti-Indigenous and residential school denialist rhetoric perpetuated by MLA Dallas Brodie and the OneBC party against First Nations in B.C. Their reprehensible words and actions continue to perpetuate harm against Residential School survivors and they must be investigated and held accountable.

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Uplifting Youth Climate Leaders Project

The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) is seeking a consultant to deliver the Uplifting Youth Climate Leaders Project working with the FNLC Climate Project manager, UBCIC staff and the FNLC climate team.

Background

The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) is a political collaborative working relationship between the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN), the First Nations Summit (FNS), and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC).

News Release 
October 20, 2025

FNLC Appalled by John Rustad’s Alarmist Rhetoric Respecting Aboriginal Title and Fee Simple Private Ownership

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) is deeply disturbed and angered by B.C. Conservative Party leader John Rustad’s letter to Premier David Eby in which he calls for an immediate pause to all negotiations between the Province of British Columbia and First Nations in response to the BC Supreme Court’s recent declaration of Cowichan Aboriginal title, and frames First Nations’ inherent and constitutional rights to their lands as a threat to British Columbia’s legal, social, and economic stability. The FNLC is similarly disturbed by Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie’s alarmist commentary and related communication delivered to certain Richmond residents warning that their property’s title could be negatively affected by the Court’s decision.

News Release

October 7, 2025

UBCIC Celebrates Grand Chief Stewart Phillip’s Historic Acclamation to a Tenth Consecutive 3-Year Term as President

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/ Vancouver, B.C. – October 7, 2025) The Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) proudly celebrates Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, SnPink’tn, Sylix Nation, who has been re-elected by acclamation to an unprecedented tenth consecutive three-year term as President. At the opening of the UBCIC 57^th Annual General Assembly this morning, Grand Chief Phillip was drummed in and honoured by the Chiefs Council, family and community members, and supporters.