The Globe and Mail: To be clear, the ideal outcome would be not just the free, prior and informed agreement by Indigenous groups affected by a pipeline, but their enthusiastic embrace of the project. But if that worthy goal cannot be achieved, what then?
“No pipeline” cannot be the answer. Canada’s economic sovereignty is at stake. A bitumen pipeline that expands access to Asian markets will reduce this country’s dependence on the United States, and vulnerability to the whims of the White House…