Eby and First Nations leaders renew pipeline opposition
Canadians shouldn’t expect any new pipelines through British Columbia. Premier David Eby and Indigenous leaders just reaffirmed their opposition.
Canadians shouldn’t expect any new pipelines through British Columbia. Premier David Eby and Indigenous leaders just reaffirmed their opposition, even as Alberta keeps pushing for West Coast energy projects.
Speaking in Vancouver ahead of the 10th annual gathering of provincial cabinet ministers and First Nations leaders, Eby said pipelines and other resource projects will be among the key issues on the table.
“The issues of pipelines, of mines, of major projects in the province will always be a source of negotiation, a source of prosperity, sometimes a source of tension with communities across the province, including Indigenous communities,” said Eby. “These are not easy discussions, but they’re crucial discussions.”
He added the projects would be discussed, but expected some First Nations groups to be in favour and some opposed.
“That’s part of the challenge, and also some of the beauty of this province we live in,” Eby said.
Regional Chief Terry Teegee of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations said projects of this scale must meet federal and provincial obligations under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
“When we’re talking about pipelines, I think it’s really important that, as decisions are being made in the context of the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples… it’s incumbent of all levels of government to have free, prior and informed consent from our First Nations,” Teegee said. “Further to that is having a robust environmental assessment, especially on a project such as an oil pipeline, that would be very difficult to build, as we’ve seen with the Northern Gateway Enbridge pipeline, which failed.”
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, said resistance to oil development is long-standing and rooted in Indigenous law and environmental stewardship.
“The whole pipeline matter is a non-starter for us. It always has been and it always will be,” Phillip said. “Why are we obsessing about oil and gas when the land itself is burning, flooding, landslides? It doesn’t make any sense. There are other, less destructive forms of energy we can look to.”
Phillip added that discussions about pipelines have surfaced repeatedly for decades but said any project advancing to British Columbia’s coast remains “very difficult” given First Nations’ rights and environmental concerns.
The remarks follow Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s repeated calls for Ottawa to support a West Coast oil pipeline, which she argues is vital to Canada’s energy security and economic growth.
Smith previously urged that the pipeline be featured on the next list of major projects, set to be unveiled by the Grey Cup. She warned that if the federal government and B.C. did not cooperate, she would turn south to willing partners in the U.S.
Smith previously called Eby’s opposition “un-Canadian and unconstitutional.”
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi previously told True North that the plan is “a pipe dream.”
“How can it be on the major projects list when there are no projects; there’s no investor; there’s no proponent; there’s no consultation; there’s no consent; there’s not even a route,” said Nenshi.
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It is time we sever all contact with the UN/WEF and WHO. Non-elected global leaders should not have any say on what happens in Canada or any other country for that matter.
So Eby aligns himself, once again, with the Liberal/WEF cabal. This time, in their thinly-disguised efforts to complete the Balkanization of Canada. Already accomplished in Quebec, thanks to Trudeau the Elder, with Alberta now being left with no choice. This is a pure and simple divide and conquer strategy, typical of all autocratic governments. Such as China's - the one that Trudeau the Witless admired so much.
This must seem like Groundhog Day for Jag Meat Singh and Justin Trudeau - here we go again. Another minority NDP leader - this time, Provincial, who doesn't even speak for his province, only for the ultra-left socialists in the Lower Mainland - gets to dictate National economic policy.
This crap is - to paraphrase Winston Churchill - "Not the End of the conflict, nor the end of the beginning, but perhaps the beginning of the end."
How long can Confederation continue? For PEI, better start thinking of another name for that magnificent bridge to the mainland. Maybe the "Memory of Canada" bridge?
BC is beginning to sound eerily like Quebec, who is a part of Canada in name only.
This is the same David Eby who is doing everything in his power to assist Carny and Company in eliminating private property ownership. This lunatic issue, incredibly, is before the BC courts.
For you property owners in BC - and everywhere else in Canada - are you OK with this? If you're thinking along the lines of "Well, this couldn't possibly happen to me?" Think again.
We are not ruled by the Liberal Party of Canada. That entity no longer exists. They've been hijacked by the WEF.
Trudeau the Witless stated that Canada is now the world's first "Post-National State" and that "you will own nothing but you will be happy". He made these statements publicly, with a huge smile and evident pride in authorship. But Trudeau the Witless does not possess the intellect to come up with such statements. They come directly - and publicly - from the co-founder of the WEF, Klaus Schwab.
Trudeau pulled those words right out of Schwab's mouth - or elsewhere.
I'm beginning to fear that it's too late to stop this train. The WEF is already deeply entrenched in our Parliament, its control processes, and power positions. It's going to take a concerted effort of some group Canadians with the commitment of the Freedom Convoy. And I just don't see that happening.
And nowhere - in all of the Liberal/NDP/WEF platform - is there any mention of what to do about the elephant next door, the USA. Their only actions, to date, have been to keep poking sticks in Trump's eye.
That's not a good bet.
In many posts on this and other platforms, I've seen Canadian voters referred to as sheep, or the "sheeple". Somewhat derogatory, but also somewhat true.
I'm beginning to see them more as a herd of confused, uninformed lemmings, headed for a cliff.