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While leaders meet in Bonn, Germany this week to discuss the Paris climate agreement, and while 15,000 scientists from around the world took advantage of the occasion to issue a desperate warning about humanity’s very survival, banks around the world, and even Desjardins, continue to finance the dirtiest oil in the world — the oilsands in Alberta — over the objections of Indigenous peoples.

That’s why the chiefs of the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador passed a resolution on Oct. 31 demanding that Desjardins respect the rights of Indigenous peoples by ending the financial support that Desjardins has given to the three oilsands pipeline projects still remaining following the demise of TransCanada’s Energy East project: Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Expansion in British Columbia, TransCanada’s Keystone XL in the United States, and Enbridge’s Line 3, from Alberta to Wisconsin. Each of the pipelines is being resisted by Indigenous peoples and allies all along the proposed routes.