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OTTAWA — Karen Restoule, the director of Indigenous affairs at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says she was struck by the number of times she heard the word “Indigenous” during Thursday’s federal-Alberta announcement regarding a new West Coast oil pipeline. “(Prime Minister Mark) Carney and (Alberta Premier Danielle) Smith must have both said ‘Indigenous’ or ‘First Nations’ at least a dozen times each,” said Restoule. “I honestly lost track.” Carney and Smith appeared together in Calgary to announce that they’d agreed on a route for a new pipeline, running southwest from Bruderheim,...