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This includes the Trudeau government, who have always erred on the side of listening to First Nations and giving them veto powers over pipelines, as well as the left-wing NDP government in British Columbia, who have done everything in their power to block other pipelines from reaching Canada’s west coast.

Perhaps most importantly, this project was also given the green light from 20 band councils along the proposed route. This includes the elected band leaders of the Wet’sutwet’en First Nation, after long consultations with the company and a referendum within the community.

The fact that the Coastal GasLink project has jumped through all the required hoops is nothing short of miraculous. But even when a company does everything required of it, Canada still cannot get its act together to ensure the democratic will gets carried out.

To make matters worse in this situation, the mainstream media have distorted the issue and continue to use euphemisms to downplay the actions of the radical environmentalist left, calling their illegal actions “civil disobedience” and “peaceful protests.”

While an overwhelming number of First Nations voices are in support of the project and the pipeline, too many in the media have described these as “First Nations protesters” and the “Indigenous cause.”

Even the CBC’s John Paul Tasker pointed out the media’s biased and erroneous coverage.“I think we tend to do that in the news media, to go to one group and think that it represents a larger community,” said Tasker. “All the Indian Act band councils — all 20 of them in the area — supported this,” he reminded the audience.