What Indigenous MPs and other players have to say about the Wet’suwet’en solidarity demonstrations

'We know that the hereditary system is our true governance system and that's what we're going to be going by, and that's what we follow, and that's what we're trying to strengthen and want recognized,' says Molly Wickham, spokesperson of the Gidimt'en Clan of Wet'suwet'en Nation.

Demonstrators march in solidarity with some Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, who oppose a $6-billion natural gas pipeline running through its traditional territory in northern B.C., in downtown Ottawa on March 7, 2020.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

February 24, 2020

All across the country, demonstrations in support of some Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, who oppose the construction of the $6.6-billion Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline which would run through the Wet'suwet'en traditional hereditary territory in northern B.C., have emerged in recent weeks.

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