What are the RCMP doing? What is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing?.In fact, what the hell is anyone in the Canadian leadership doing as our economy is slowly being strangled by a small group of illegal protesters who are in support of a small group of hereditary chiefs who want to block construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in Smithers, B.C.?.We have been witness to surreal scenes of the RCMP arresting a man on Vancouver Island who tried to remove an illegal blockade so that he could get to work. The same Mounties who just stood by and watched the handful of activists build the illegal roadblock in the first place..Mighty CN rail has issued a warning they may have to shut down huge swaths of track because of barricades in B.C. and Ontario. “The impact is also being felt beyond Canada’s borders and is harming the country’s reputation as a stable and viable supply chain partner,” said CN head JJ Ruest.. EDITORIAL: Canada’s leaders fail as blockades spread lawlessness .So Canada’s international reputation is being held hostage by a handful of people unhappy with an agreement that every indigenous band along the route had signed on to. Those bands agreed with the development because they knew it would bring in much-needed jobs and opportunity for their people..Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was right in calling the protests “eco-colonialism,” adding people are projecting their own environmental views on Indigenous people..The $6.6 billion pipeline, to be operated by TC Energy Corp, would transport gas from near Dawson Creek in northeast B.C. to Kitimat on the coast and supply Canada’s largest liquefied natural gas export terminal, called LNG Canada, which is under construction..The pipeline has the support of all First Nations along the route, but hereditary chiefs of Wet’suwet’en Nation, through which 28 per cent of the 670-km route passes, oppose it. The hereditary chiefs and are not elected. They speak for no one but themselves.. AFL launches website for people to boycott businesses that donated to UCP .In Victoria, the baying mob closed off the entrances to the Legislature building in Victoria. The masked protestors – many of them unlikely to be able to point out Smithers on a map – spit on and assaulted female employees as they tried to get to work..In Calgary, Transportation Minister Mark Garneau said he was “concerned” about the protests. No kidding. Thanks for the leadership, Mr. Minister..No. What this country needs now is real leadership. Trudeau needs to stop fawning around Africa throwing our tax money away to buy himself a U.N. Security Council seat, and return to Ottawa immediately. Parliament needs to be recalled to bring this lunacy to a halt..And the RCMP needs to be freed up to do their jobs. Clear away the blockades and arrest the ne’er-do-wells if they won’t leave. It’s time to stop worrying that some feelings might get hurt..Canadians expect and deserve real leadership and we demand it now..Western Standard Editorial Board
What are the RCMP doing? What is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doing?.In fact, what the hell is anyone in the Canadian leadership doing as our economy is slowly being strangled by a small group of illegal protesters who are in support of a small group of hereditary chiefs who want to block construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in Smithers, B.C.?.We have been witness to surreal scenes of the RCMP arresting a man on Vancouver Island who tried to remove an illegal blockade so that he could get to work. The same Mounties who just stood by and watched the handful of activists build the illegal roadblock in the first place..Mighty CN rail has issued a warning they may have to shut down huge swaths of track because of barricades in B.C. and Ontario. “The impact is also being felt beyond Canada’s borders and is harming the country’s reputation as a stable and viable supply chain partner,” said CN head JJ Ruest.. EDITORIAL: Canada’s leaders fail as blockades spread lawlessness .So Canada’s international reputation is being held hostage by a handful of people unhappy with an agreement that every indigenous band along the route had signed on to. Those bands agreed with the development because they knew it would bring in much-needed jobs and opportunity for their people..Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was right in calling the protests “eco-colonialism,” adding people are projecting their own environmental views on Indigenous people..The $6.6 billion pipeline, to be operated by TC Energy Corp, would transport gas from near Dawson Creek in northeast B.C. to Kitimat on the coast and supply Canada’s largest liquefied natural gas export terminal, called LNG Canada, which is under construction..The pipeline has the support of all First Nations along the route, but hereditary chiefs of Wet’suwet’en Nation, through which 28 per cent of the 670-km route passes, oppose it. The hereditary chiefs and are not elected. They speak for no one but themselves.. AFL launches website for people to boycott businesses that donated to UCP .In Victoria, the baying mob closed off the entrances to the Legislature building in Victoria. The masked protestors – many of them unlikely to be able to point out Smithers on a map – spit on and assaulted female employees as they tried to get to work..In Calgary, Transportation Minister Mark Garneau said he was “concerned” about the protests. No kidding. Thanks for the leadership, Mr. Minister..No. What this country needs now is real leadership. Trudeau needs to stop fawning around Africa throwing our tax money away to buy himself a U.N. Security Council seat, and return to Ottawa immediately. Parliament needs to be recalled to bring this lunacy to a halt..And the RCMP needs to be freed up to do their jobs. Clear away the blockades and arrest the ne’er-do-wells if they won’t leave. It’s time to stop worrying that some feelings might get hurt..Canadians expect and deserve real leadership and we demand it now..Western Standard Editorial Board
