Multiple First Nations are challenging Mark Carney's MOU with Danielle Smith in federal court.
"... for Canada and Alberta to now sign a deal to support this project behind our backs — it’s dishonourable and it’s disrespectful"
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Marilyn Slett, Coastal First Nations says an oil pipeline linking Alberta to BC’s coast "will never happen."
'Slett says her group - which represents nearly a dozen First Nation groups along the B.C. coast - has faced a “wall of silence” from the federal government on a possible pipeline deal with Alberta.'
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Speaking to reporters shortly after her address, Woodhouse Nepinak apologized for having to hold the press conference outside of the museum.
"You should have been in there, and you should have been able to hear my speech," she said.
"You're all invited to (our annual general assembly) in Winnipeg ... We won't kick you out. You're all welcome to stay with us the whole day."
'After [Carney] finished making brief remarks, media were escorted out of the room and barred from hearing National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak address the hundreds of chiefs gathered, despite her wishes for media to remain present.'
'The AFN advocated for the entire meeting to be made public', but after Carney's brief remarks, 'media were escorted out of the room and barred' from hearing AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak speak
Mohawk Council of Kahnawake Grand Chief Cody Diabo: Carney's meeting was "a facade"; "I don't even know what this is, but this is not engagement. This is definitely not consultation"
By 'mid-afternoon some leaders had walked out of the summit'; 'chiefs expected to have time to engage with the prime minister and cabinet ministers but instead were asked to talk to one another'
Joanna Bernard from Madawaska Maliseet First Nation, AFN regional chief for New Brunswick: "They're coming in, they're putting up the agenda, they're deciding how this is going to proceed, but definitely it is not consultation."
Jeronimo Kataquapit: "If we stand by and watch whoever come into our home and do whatever they want, then everything our ancestors have fought for up to this moment would have been for nothing"
Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) Grand Chief Cody Diabo: "I thought to myself about packing up and leaving, because (...) this isn't anything like what I thought it would be"
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