Commentary Is it time to change the name of British Columbia? An opinion article in The Tyee, an influential online publication based in B.C., says it’s the right thing to do. According to the piece, the name “honours England’s racist colonizers” and “lionizes Columbus.” The Village of Pemberton thinks the name should be changed too. They recently put a resolution forward at the Lower Mainland Local Government Association’s AGM calling for a petition to the provincial government to change B.C.’s name, claiming it only represents a brief period of the province’s history and fails to honour First Nations or the multicultural range of its settlers. But in my opinion the name shouldn’t be changed. For one thing, Sir James Douglas, who did much to establish colonial settlement, trade, and industry on the West Coast, was anything but a racist. For another, part of his resistance to American expansionism was offering …