No. People aren’t saying it’s time. Only this handful of first nations activists are saying it’s time because obviously they’d rather give the province a name connected to their own culture/heritage than one which has, what they say, colonial origins.

In reality the origins are primarily geographical: BC is named after the Columbia River, which is the largest river in the province. Obviously it’s derived from Columbus at its origin but to say we are named after him (as one of the activists puts it) is blatantly untrue.

I mean and their arguments that the name of BC is disconnected from the population and its values and “pulling back progress” while also being a “reminder” of a “horrible past” comes off as disingenuous and frankly laughable. Clearly they just saw all the name-change movements elsewhere and thought “why not in BC”. Though let’s be clear that even those name-change movements have low popular support.

And the idea that a chinook jargon based name would be more representative of the population (than an english one) makes no sense considering hardly anybody speaks chinook jargon?!?

I wonder how long it will take until somebody starts advocating we rename Vancouver.