JEmphatically

Chief Sheldon Sunshine writes to Prime Minister Mark Carney about the draft cooperation agreement giving Alberta more responsibility for impact assessments.

In a “turnabout is fair play” move, he gives Carney until March 19 to respond.

The public (including First Nations) were given a deadline of March 27 to respond to the draft agreement.

“Canada’s proposal to defer to Alberta’s basically non-existent environmental impact assessment and rubber stamp regulatory review processes will have disastrous implications, and will be antithetical to the regulatory certainty your Government seeks…”

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Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation writes to Prime Minister Mark Carney about latest draft cooperation agreement with Alberta

Reproduced here in full in The Missive, with images and the Wonder Valley connection added

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@JEmphatically This is an important issue and it's important to give the Cease and Desist's exact wording airtime as you've done:

The Co-operation Agreement came to our attention through media reports. Prime Minister, this does not respect our Nation-to-Nation relationship. In fact, it completely disrespects and ignores it.

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The Co-operation Agreement proposes to rely on provincial environmental assessments in areas of federal jurisdiction on all major projects. This is a dangerous mistake. It is also egregiously illegal in several respects, and we will be forced to legally challenge this Agreement if it is finalized, as it is obviously going to be with a formalistic and meaningless consultation process, which we are also seeing in other provinces.

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So I wish it was hosted on Ghost or some other place that isn't a Nazi bar, so I could promote it guilt-free.

#CDNPoli