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VICTORIA — It was a week of ironies, as whole flocks of chickens came home to roost for some of B.C.’s activist politicians.

John Horgan, in his Opposition days, endorsed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in a speech to the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, with Grand Chief Stewart Phillip looking on.

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On Tuesday, a “despondent” Premier Horgan struggled with “my personal feelings” as throne speech day was disrupted by an unprecedented protest over NDP support for the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline.

Among those blasting the New Democrats for trampling the objections of some Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs was none other than Grand Chief Phillip.

“Reconciliation will never be achieved at gunpoint,” charged Phillip.

“The Horgan government is picking and choosing which articles of the UN Declaration that it upholds and when,” he added via news release. “The rhetoric that is being peddled by the Horgan government is a purposeful and strategic effort to confuse and misinform the public.”