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Trans Mountain pipeline another colonial project asserting jurisdiction over Indigenous lands – Thestar.com

In the face of extraordinary Indigenous resistance to the Trans Mountain project, and without a trace of the tears that fell for reconciliation, Prime Minister Trudeau asserts that this infrastructure is “in the national interest and it will get built.”

April 24, 2018

Kinder Morgan is nothing less than reconciliation on trial. The company’s recent claims to the “untenable” economics of the Trans Mountain pipeline may derail the project for now, but there will be other pipelines, and the problem of jurisdiction will not go away.

Today, Justin Trudeau fights tirelessly to assert national jurisdiction to see the planned pipeline to completion. In the face of extraordinary Indigenous resistance to the Trans Mountain project, and without a trace of the tears that fell for reconciliation, Trudeau asserts that this infrastructure is “in the national interest and it will get built.”

Read More: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2018/04/24/trans-mountain-pipeline-another-colonial-project-asserting-jurisdiction-over-indigenous-lands.html

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