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Coastal GasLink signed agreements with all 20 elected bands on its route, but on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory that does not settle who holds title. Ottawa and Victoria should answer the question the Supreme Court left open in 1997.
From the Dec. 31, 2019, injunction to the March 1, 2020, draft arrangement, a dated record of the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests. The court orders were clear long before Ottawa said the barricades must come down.
Canada’s title to the Arctic is sound in law, but law is tested where the state is thin. Macdonald bound the country with a railway; Canada must hold the North with runways, a port, and patrols.
Four candidates made the Conservative leadership ballot before the party suspended the race on March 26. Erin O’Toole has published the most testable proposals, while much of Peter MacKay’s platform is a list of things to scrap without a word on what replaces them.
