We’re adding to the crisis in the relationship with Indigenous peoples

This is also about government overreach in Indigenous governments, the oil and gas industry’s hardening grip on a dying energy source, the alarming tendency of the RCMP to use excessive force when Indigenous peoples are involved, and a desperation that Canada doesn’t really want to do reconciliation.
A drummer, pictured on Feb. 7, 2020, sings at the corner of Metcalfe Street and Laurier West Avenue in a march in support of the Wet'suwet'en land defenders in Ottawa.
OTTAWA—We are adding to the crisis in the relationship with Indigenous peoples. It’s a crisis. Many people are scrambling to come up with policy options. Tensions are high. We all want it resolved. And that, Ottawa, is pretty much all that we can agree on. Those are the facts. Everything else i...

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