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The leader of a union representing about half of B.C.’s First Nations, supported by two of Metro Vancouver’s largest cities, vowed on Monday to continue protesting the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion.

“In the post-Tsilhqot’in era, the legal bar has been raised to consent and there is no consent,” Okanagan Nation Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said. Phillip was referring to the 2014 Supreme Court of Canada decision to grant title of 1,700 square hectares of land in B.C. to the Tsilhqot’in First Nation.

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“The answer is still no, the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline will never be built,” he said.

Phillip and leaders of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations, along with Burnaby’s mayor, a Burnaby MP and a Vancouver councillor, reiterated their opposition to the pipeline a day after Ottawa vowed the pipeline would go ahead despite B.C.’s refusal to approve it.