AFN national chief calls for calm, constructive dialogue to ease tensions over anti-pipeline protests GlobeBusiness
Perry Bellegarde, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, speaks in Ottawa, in a Dec. 3, 2019, file photo.The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling for calm and constructive dialogue to ease tensions over a British Columbia pipeline project and the nationwide protests it’s spawned.
Hereditary chiefs in the Wet’suwet’en First Nation oppose the natural-gas pipeline through their traditional territory, though it’s received approval from elected band councils.
Other chiefs speaking alongside Bellegarde suggest it may be time to bring the situation to a peaceful conclusion and bring down the blockades.
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