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I feel like a lot of people misunderstand what actually happened. The project was approved, but it was appealed and the Court of Appeal (which does have some length between the Trudeau government...) said "Hey you guys are suppose to meaningfully consult with Indigenous but you didn't do any meaningful consultation, go back and do some consultation and then we can talk."
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Yeah except no one knows what constitutes "meaningful consultations". The consultations for this project took years and they talked to over 70 FN groups. Do you think they were just winging it? This court stepped in with an incoherent ruling that was politically influenced to stop the pipeline, this entire 1 year diversion has been a complete waste of time coupled with a tremendous loss of economic value for the country. The FN group that filed the suit that stopped construction didn't even give a F about being consulted, they cared about stopping the project and the proof of that is their celebrations and comments afterwards all centered on stopping the pipeline and not one word about consultations. It's completely disingenuous and guess what will happen if/when this pipeline gets approved for the second time? More lawsuits backed by foreign influence groups will get launched attacking any crack, any red herring they can find to stop the project. Consultations, upstream emissions, downstream emissions, tanker traffic, anything. Doesn't matter what it is. You're dreaming if you think this latest round will stop any controversy about consultations. It won't. This entire process is a farce.
Trudeau and his government could have insulated this project against all these nuisance suits and made the FCA irrelevant by passing senator Doug Black's bill but they didn't. It wasn't hard to see what sidetracked the pipeline eventually happening, I told his office it would happen when I wrote them a letter last year thanking them for buying the pipeline but also urging them to take further steps to insure construction. I knew it would happen then, just like it will happen now if this project gets going again.