Trans Mountain pipeline expansion marks sea change in thinking

The expanded pipeline would also specifically benefit Indigenous people by creating multi-generational wealth—which would allow us to move from a place we don’t want to be to one that’s better.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured with Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi, announced last week that his cabinet has re-approved the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DELBERT WAPASS

June 25, 2019

Not too long ago, news stories about Indigenous peoples and natural resources development all seemed to have a familiar ring. A new oil or gas project would be announced. Indigenous peoples would be in the news opposing it. And then it would disappear from the headlin...

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