A “less than ideal situation” is missing the sale on three-ply Kleenex at Shopper’s Drug Mart and having to settle for two-ply instead. ( Jesse Winter / Star Metro )A “less than ideal situation” is locking your keys in your car. As this week again showed, on a number of important fronts, the Trudeau government’s relations with Indigenous communities are nowhere near ideal. This was evident, too, in the “less than ideal” situation playing out in northern British Columbia this week. On Wednesday, in the interests of the safety of the land defenders, Wet’suwet’en chiefs struck an interim agreement to give the company temporary access behind the gates.

Source: thestar January 11, 2019 00:19 UTC