The government had to redo its consultations with First Nations, the court ruled, because the first round hadn’t been done in a meaningful way. And so the NEB panel set up meetings in Calgary, Victoria and Nanaimo to hear oral traditional evidence from Indigenous leaders. This is kind of like checking off that little box that’s there that we were consulted,” Elder Paula Giroux of the Driftpile Cree Nation told the panel in Calgary. Not all Indigenous leaders who appeared before the NEB panel over the past three weeks were opposed to the project. It scares me.”Following his submissions, the NEB panel, as was often the case during these hearings, didn’t ask a single question.

Source: National Post December 07, 2018 22:07 UTC