Conrad Black: Canada's government has abandoned its responsibility to lead

A protester walks in front of a snowplow blade that has signatures from Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, at a rail blockade in Tyendinaga, near Belleville, Ont., on Feb. 21, 2020.Lars Hagberg/AFP via Getty Images

It is necessary to highlight that the problems have worsened for two weeks as the federal government stumbles and becomes obfuscated, passes the money to the provinces and asks for “patience”. Likewise, it is now the most absurd fiasco that afflicts a Canadian government since John Diefenbaker announced in January 1963 that at the meeting of US President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan in the Bahamas a week earlier, there was been “a change in the views of NATO” on nuclear weapons.

It has been said that the current stalemate over the blockades in sympathy with some indigenous opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern British Columbia is comparatively absurd, and although it does not directly involve Canada’s relations with other countries, it is now leading us to contempt and ridiculous widespread in the world.

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Now it is appropriate to refresh the memories, so it could be said that the majority of Wet’suwet’en natives, five of six native councils chosen from 20 native councils along the 670-kilometer pipe, support the project. These are the leaders in specific reservations. Five hereditary leaders of Wet’suwet’en, which govern larger territories, oppose. In sympathy with the Wet’suwet’en opposites, but contrary to most of them and against the other 15 native councils along the proposed route from Dawson Creek to Kitimat, the protesters, a mixture of indigenous citizens and Non-indigenous, they are blocking rail traffic for cargo and passengers in many parts of BC, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, and dispersed elsewhere.

Nearly one hundred thousand passengers of the railway have been terribly uncomfortable, as well as many thousands of motorists and local travelers who have been blocked or forced to long detours, and thousands of freight trains that involve billions of dollars of trade have been canceled or delayed

It should be noted that these blockades have now negatively affected the entire country. This project is a matter of different national interest unequivocally supported by the NDP-Green government of British Columbia, and is being harassed by these blockades in defiance of more than twenty court orders across the country, and is illegally forcing all Country to rescue.

Source: Conrad Black | National Post