https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/01/15/Horgans-Pipeline-Push-Betrays-Reconciliation-Promise-UNDRIP/
Horgan’s Pipeline Push Betrays His Reconciliation Promise
First Nations expected a new era; instead the government has embraced colonialism and ignored UNDRIP law.
Shiri Pasternak is a professor of criminology at Ryerson University and the research director of the Yellowhead Institute.
Over the coming weeks, two stories will be told repeatedly about the police raids and arrests on Wet’suwet’en territory. One story will already be familiar to those reading coverage of the escalating conflict between Coastal Gaslink, the province of British Columbia and the Wet’suwet’en hereditary government. It goes like this: First Nation band councils have consented to this development and welcome the jobs and revenue; Indigenous groups working under hereditary authority who oppose the pipeline, therefore, represent a rogue and non-democratic faction.
B.C. Premier John Horgan, seen here on Jan. 13, 2020, told reporters Monday that he does not believe the Wet’suwet’en opponents should have the power to veto the project.
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B.C. Premier John Horgan has brushed aside mounting criticism from human-rights organizations of the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, saying the infrastructure that is vital to securing a liquefied natural gas industry in British Columbia will be built.
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