"The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), newly blessed by the federal Liberals after formal concerns lodged by the previous Conservative government, is one of the key dividing lines between the political parties. 

It’s promise of free, prior and informed consent is the lens that the BC NDP would apply to every action taken by government – in step with Ottawa. However, the BC Liberals warn that UNDRIP could cripple the economy if consent turns out to be veto power."

What is going to cripple the economy is simply trying to provide a definition for these three words; "free, prior and informed." It's taken nearly three decades, dozens of court cases and probably a couple of billion dollars just to provide a fuzzy definition of the "duty to consult." And now they want to just blindly throw that phrase out there without providing any definition for it and just hope it all works out somehow? Nuts.