‘A fundamental reset’: pollsters, Indigenous experts call for re-examination of feds’ approach to reconciliation

'There’s no solution here that gives the hereditary chiefs what they want that doesn’t blow the underpinnings of the Canadian regulatory process for reviewing infrastructure,' says pollster Greg Lyle.
More than 400 demonstrators took to Ottawa's streets on Feb. 24 in a show of solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs. Canada is ‘really starting to grapple with some implications of what colonization means and how we can make that right,’ says lawyer Kate Gunn.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s push to meet Indigenous people halfway in advancing reconciliation appears to have hit a snag over the Wet’suwet’en solidarity blockades, according to pollsters and Indigenous experts, though some say it could force the government...

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