Justin Trudeau can exercise power or cede more of it. So far he seems unwilling to do either
! No pipelines on stolen native land!” So chanted dozens of protesters on a chilly afternoon this week in Vancouver. With placards in hand, they blocked traffic on a busy thoroughfare, doing their part to “shut down Canada”. That has become the rallying cry against the Coastal GasLink pipeline, a C$6.6bn project which will transport natural gas 670km across British Columbia to the Pacific coast, where a liquefied natural gas plant is under construction.
None of this has scuppered the plans, but it has disrupted the economy and embarrassed the Liberal government. Canadian National Railway shut down lines in the east of the country and temporarily laid off about 450 workers; Via Rail, a passenger service, is doing the same to nearly 1,000. Food, heating fuel, farm exports and commodities are gridlocked. Cars and ships have been unable to get through bridges, ports and the border with the United States.
Mr Trudeau’s timing is unlucky. He has inherited this problem from successive governments which have failed to resolve tensions between national and indigenous laws. Worse, past attempts have contributed to present confusion. An act in 1876 artificially divided the First Nations into elected “band” councils. Hereditary leaders still dispute elected representatives’ authority.
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