With this announcement fast-tracking a new tarsands pipeline, "both Canada and Alberta have created further division and encouraged litigation rather than meaningful, good faith engagement and collaborative decision making."
"We reiterate that no one with authority to represent Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation attended, nor do we support it. In fact, we were not even invited likely because we are one of the strong voices who will not accept the short-circuiting of our Treaties."
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Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Chief Sheldon Sunshine: “In rushing to make this decision, the federal government – in an act of apparent appeasement to our separatist Premier – has dismantled the federal environmental assessment regime through regulation and put in its place a plainly unconstitutional process that does not uphold the honour of the Crown”.
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/first-nations-along-pacific-link-pipeline-denounce-government-over-lack-of-consultation/
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