Juno News - February 16, 2020Pipeline protests have nothing to do with supporting the Wet’suwet’en people
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Summary
In the wake of the protests against the Coastal Mountain pipeline, it's hard to argue that the opposition to the proposed pipeline is anything other than an attempt to stymie Canadian energy development. In fact, the opposition comes from the usual suspects, denizens of the far left wing of the political spectrum, who come out for whatever the cause du jour is.
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The events of the last few days have changed entirely what I was going to talk to you about.
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I saw a news story initially that Canada's fleet of four Victoria-class submarines were all in
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dry dock for all of 2019 at a cost of over 371 million dollars. Not one of them even got their
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keels wet last year. As insane as that sounds, and it does, it pales in comparison to the
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government's poor handling of the protests supposedly in support of the Wet'suwet'en nation
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and their hereditary chiefs in blocking the coastal mountain natural gas pipeline. As the
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Prime Minister traipses around Africa and Europe, doling out millions for gender equity in countries
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that jail or kill LGBT people, he has issued nothing but platitudes about dialogue between
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interested parties and has literally done nothing about a crisis that is affecting the country's economy.
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Firstly, whatever else the protesters try to convince you of, none of this has anything to
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do with supporting the Wet'suwet'en people. The hereditary chiefs are not representative of the
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Wet'suwet'en who along with 19 other First Nations groups along the pipeline route support the
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development of the pipeline and stand to benefit greatly financially for their band members and
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the bands as a whole from the project. Five of the 13 hereditary chiefs have formed a non-profit
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company funded by the likes of the Tides Foundation and the Pembina Institute to protest this project.
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In other words, it's part of the US funded effort to stymie Canadian energy projects and nothing more.
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The support protests are little more than the usual suspects, denizens of the far left wing of the
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political spectrum who come out for whatever the cause du jour is. And, as former NDP political
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operative and consultant Brad Zubik noted on Twitter, 20 of 20 elected governments support the project,
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as do 8 of 13 hereditary chiefs and 85 percent of the Wet'suwet'en people. These protesters are actually
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opposed to the Wet'suwet'en. This is demonstrated in a Saturday story in the Vancouver Sun, talking to one of the
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organizers of the so-called Solidarity Action Saturday protest at John Henry Park in East Vancouver.
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Natalie Knight, trust me, no relation, said many of the folks behind the scenes met during the protest
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during the 2010 Olympics. You can bet they went from that nonsensical bullcrap to the Occupy movement the
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very next year and on and on it goes as left wing causes pop up. Why anyone gives these fools any credence
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or attention is literally beyond me. Then there's CBC coverage calling it the Wet'suwet'en anti-pipeline
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protests where the railway blockade is taking place at the Tyendinaga Reserve in Eastern Ontario, which has
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essentially ground rail transport in this country to a halt. The government and the OPP have looked
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paralyzed even after court injunctions were served to clear the line. As I talk to you, the Indigenous
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Affairs Minister Mark Miller is heading to Belleville from his insulated white tower office in Ottawa to
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have a quote dialogue unquote with the Mohawk band at the heart of the blockade. But to suggest this has
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anything to do with the Wet'suwet'en people is pure nonsense. This is just the latest in a series of land
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battles with the Mohawks going back decades and in many different locations. One of the Mohawk blockade
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protesters said as much in a Globe and Mail interview when he blamed the police and CN Rail saying quote
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we are polite nice with them and they don't comply he said. It's been that way for 500 years
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unquote. 500 years? Right. So this really isn't supporting the blockade of the coastal mountain pipeline,
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is it? It's all about decades of long perceived grievances, which in itself is rich really. The
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Mohawks are part of the Iroquois nation. Pre-contact they were among the most violent warring tribes who
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engaged in torture and cannibalism of primarily rivals like the Huron, the Narragansett and Algonquin tribes.
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But these facts are ignored as they plead victimhood. One of the delicious ironies in all of this
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is the areas who were responsible for electing this band of posers and incompetents are the ones being most
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adversely affected by the rail blockade. An MP from the Maritines tweeted out that they get 85% of their propane
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by rail and the shutdown of all services would have adverse effects within short order. I guess after voting
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for the climate virtue signaling liberals they have yet to wean themselves off fossil fuels.
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The GTA is the other area of ironic interest. Chlorine for their water treatment facilities is delivered by rail
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and supplies are rapidly running out. Frankly, it serves them all right. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.