Indigenous Nation Blocks TransCanada Pipeline with New Checkpoint

by The Real News Network (TRNN) / December 23rd, 2018

When TransCanada attempts to deliver a Canadian court injunction against a decade-old Wet’suwet’en checkpoint, they run into a second checkpoint instead. The Wet’suwet’en people have never signed treaties with Canada or sold their lands, a fact confirmed by Canada’s Supreme Court in 1997 in a landmark case known as Delgamuukw.

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This article was posted on Sunday, December 23rd, 2018 at 2:56pm and is filed under Canada, Colonialism, Original Peoples, Video.