Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an emergency parliamentary committee to study all possible steps to protect private land ownership – known as fee simple title – in Canada.
His is the latest in a long list of voices expressing concern about the Cowichan decision, a B.C. Supreme Court ruling from August, 2025, that declared Aboriginal title is a senior interest above fee simple.
Mr. Poilievre spoke to reporters Thursday at a dusty crossroads between farmers’ fields in Richmond, B.C., the city where the courts have recognized that the Cowichan Tribes have Aboriginal title to about 300 hectares of developed land.
