“We need to recognize that if Indigenous people do not want pipelines to go through their territory,…”

We need to recognize that if Indigenous people do not want pipelines to go through their territory, they can’t.

That when environmental regulations and our climate change commitments are not being met, with these pipelines, they cannot go through.

And that social license is critical in this equation as well

NDP MP Niki Ashton. She’s running to be the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP).

Her video interview starts at ~1:48:00.

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(via allthecanadianpolitics)