The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, Sept. 10, edition that Jim Prentice has worked
for years to earn the trust of the energy industry and
Canada's first nations. The Globe's Carrie Tait writes that now, as Alberta's next premier, he has to figure out how to get
those camps to trust each other.
Mr. Prentice won over some
first nations groups in Alberta
and B.C. with his
support for their rights and his
stance that regulatory approvals
are not enough to secure
Enbridge's right to build its
proposed Northern Gateway
pipeline. He has said first nations must be on
board with the project first.
In 2011 he said, "One of the great public policy
failures in Canadian history was
the failure to actually execute
land claim treaties and, in a
sense, titlement, in British Columbia
over of course of the last
150 years." Mr. Prentice was then addressing the difficulties
Gateway faces.
"The reality on the ground
is that the constitutional and
legal position of the first nations
is very strong."
Recently, Mr. Prentice
argued he was the candidate
who could make the
pipeline happen. Now, The Globe says, Mr. Prentice must
show how he plans to move the
stalled pipeline plan forward.
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