Violence of any nature is unacceptable in a society such as ours. At the same time we have to recognize that while this is an entirely provincially regulated authorization process that has gone through all the mechanisms, there is a resistance to this project by several indigenous groups. Those who have chosen to invest in CGL, that is absolutely their right, and indeed, on completion they most likely stand to benefit from it.
The question, I think, is this: What is the role of the federal government when people are not of the same mind, excluding, obviously, people who would choose violence as a solution to their frustrations? That is an important one. I don't think we could come up with a cost estimate that would truly value the role that the federal government can play working with the provincial government, in this case, Minister Rankin in B.C., in trying to achieve a peaceful solution to a very highly contentious situation that starts not only in resource extraction, but controversy over the issue of indigenous title and Wet'suwet'en hereditary title that was embodied in Supreme Court cases a quarter of a century ago.
I'm not suggesting, by any stretch of the imagination, that hereditary leadership in this case sanctions any of the unacceptable activities we've seen, but we have to, at the same time, acknowledge that there is tension within the Wet'suwet'en people's leadership—many of them—as to whether this pipeline has had the social acceptability it has had. It is a difficult situation but I think—