Well, I don't know who've they've spoken to on that front, but as I alluded to at the top of my testimony, this government has passed a law to uphold the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It sets a higher bar that requires not only consultation but consent.
In the case of these two pipelines I mentioned, one that is owned by the federal government and the other where the federal government has a clear stake, articles 10 and 36 of the UN declaration are clearly being violated. Article 10 says that “peoples will not be forcibly removed from their [own]...territories”.
Article 37 brings in that obligation to require consent. The titleholders of the Wet'suwet'en, with respect to the Coastal GasLink pipeline—and the Delgamuukw decision recognized that it was the hereditary chiefs who are the titleholders—have not given their consent. Here in my city, the Trans Mountain pipeline terminus is in the territories of Wet'suwet'en—