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Author: Alessia Passafiume
Publication Date: December 12, 2025 - 17:38
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Ottawa’s Indigenous advisers weren’t told about Alberta pipeline agreement, chief says
December 12, 2025
A member of the Indigenous advisory council of the Major Projects Office said he and his colleagues were not told in advance of the agreement the federal government signed with Alberta opening a path to a pipeline to B.C.’s coast.
Trevor Mercredi, grand chief of Treaty 8 First Nations in Alberta, told a news conference on Thursday that the memorandum of understanding signed last month was “news” to him and his colleagues, and that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government didn’t tap the council for advice on how to move forward.
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