Juno News - Pipeline protests have nothing to do with supporting the Wet’suwet’en people

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.

00:00:00.000 The events of the last few days have changed entirely what I was going to talk to you about.

00:00:09.440 I saw a news story initially that Canada's fleet of four Victoria-class submarines were all in

00:00:15.000 dry dock for all of 2019 at a cost of over 371 million dollars. Not one of them even got their

00:00:23.080 keels wet last year. As insane as that sounds, and it does, it pales in comparison to the

00:00:30.120 government's poor handling of the protests supposedly in support of the Wet'suwet'en nation

00:00:36.600 and their hereditary chiefs in blocking the coastal mountain natural gas pipeline. As the

00:00:42.760 Prime Minister traipses around Africa and Europe, doling out millions for gender equity in countries

00:00:49.880 that jail or kill LGBT people, he has issued nothing but platitudes about dialogue between

00:00:57.720 interested parties and has literally done nothing about a crisis that is affecting the country's economy.

00:01:05.480 Firstly, whatever else the protesters try to convince you of, none of this has anything to

00:01:11.160 do with supporting the Wet'suwet'en people. The hereditary chiefs are not representative of the 1.00

00:01:16.600 Wet'suwet'en who along with 19 other First Nations groups along the pipeline route support the 0.98

00:01:24.360 development of the pipeline and stand to benefit greatly financially for their band members and

00:01:31.320 the bands as a whole from the project. Five of the 13 hereditary chiefs have formed a non-profit

00:01:38.440 company funded by the likes of the Tides Foundation and the Pembina Institute to protest this project.

00:01:45.560 In other words, it's part of the US funded effort to stymie Canadian energy projects and nothing more.

00:01:53.480 The support protests are little more than the usual suspects, denizens of the far left wing of the

00:02:00.920 political spectrum who come out for whatever the cause du jour is. And, as former NDP political

00:02:08.520 operative and consultant Brad Zubik noted on Twitter, 20 of 20 elected governments support the project,

00:02:17.240 as do 8 of 13 hereditary chiefs and 85 percent of the Wet'suwet'en people. These protesters are actually

00:02:24.840 opposed to the Wet'suwet'en. This is demonstrated in a Saturday story in the Vancouver Sun, talking to one of the

00:02:32.200 organizers of the so-called Solidarity Action Saturday protest at John Henry Park in East Vancouver.

00:02:39.800 Natalie Knight, trust me, no relation, said many of the folks behind the scenes met during the protest

00:02:47.640 during the 2010 Olympics. You can bet they went from that nonsensical bullcrap to the Occupy movement the

00:02:55.720 very next year and on and on it goes as left wing causes pop up. Why anyone gives these fools any credence 0.99

00:03:03.240 or attention is literally beyond me. Then there's CBC coverage calling it the Wet'suwet'en anti-pipeline 0.98

00:03:11.720 protests where the railway blockade is taking place at the Tyendinaga Reserve in Eastern Ontario, which has

00:03:19.880 essentially ground rail transport in this country to a halt. The government and the OPP have looked

00:03:26.440 paralyzed even after court injunctions were served to clear the line. As I talk to you, the Indigenous

00:03:33.560 Affairs Minister Mark Miller is heading to Belleville from his insulated white tower office in Ottawa to

00:03:41.160 have a quote dialogue unquote with the Mohawk band at the heart of the blockade. But to suggest this has

00:03:48.920 anything to do with the Wet'suwet'en people is pure nonsense. This is just the latest in a series of land 1.00

00:03:55.640 battles with the Mohawks going back decades and in many different locations. One of the Mohawk blockade 0.99

00:04:04.680 protesters said as much in a Globe and Mail interview when he blamed the police and CN Rail saying quote

00:04:11.160 we are polite nice with them and they don't comply he said. It's been that way for 500 years

00:04:18.760 unquote. 500 years? Right. So this really isn't supporting the blockade of the coastal mountain pipeline,

00:04:27.480 is it? It's all about decades of long perceived grievances, which in itself is rich really. The

00:04:35.560 Mohawks are part of the Iroquois nation. Pre-contact they were among the most violent warring tribes who 0.99

00:04:42.920 engaged in torture and cannibalism of primarily rivals like the Huron, the Narragansett and Algonquin tribes.

00:04:51.240 But these facts are ignored as they plead victimhood. One of the delicious ironies in all of this

00:04:57.960 is the areas who were responsible for electing this band of posers and incompetents are the ones being most

00:05:05.400 adversely affected by the rail blockade. An MP from the Maritines tweeted out that they get 85% of their propane

00:05:14.920 by rail and the shutdown of all services would have adverse effects within short order. I guess after voting

00:05:22.040 for the climate virtue signaling liberals they have yet to wean themselves off fossil fuels.

00:05:27.960 The GTA is the other area of ironic interest. Chlorine for their water treatment facilities is delivered by rail

00:05:36.280 and supplies are rapidly running out. Frankly, it serves them all right. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.

Juno News - February 16, 2020

Pipeline protests have nothing to do with supporting the Wet’suwet’en people

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