Killing Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Would Devastate Indigenous Communities
The Trudeau government must ensure Trans Mountain gets built for the sake of energy security and indigenous prosperity
Heavy equipment on the site of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project at the company's Burnaby Terminal tank farm in Burnaby, B.C., on March 10, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
Ottawa needs to finally declare through legislation that the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is to the national advantage of Canada. Doing so would prove to the Canadian public and indigenous communities that the federal government is serious about seeing it completed.
Joseph Quesnel
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Joseph Quesnel is a senior research associate with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy who is Quebec Metis by heritage.