In fact, I think the starting premise is that we can stop certain projects. The presumption that all projects must go through in all situations, no matter what the human cost is, is how we got into this. Some projects are simply not safe for the environment or indigenous peoples.
The federal government has significant financial and political levers in its relationships with the provinces and territories. They have the ability to make it conditional that any federal approvals, any federal support and any federal money is conditional on a guarantee of prevention of violence against indigenous women and girls in all of its forms, also to purposefully investigate, prosecute and rout out all of the RCMP sex offenders, all of the man camp sex offenders and all of the corporate sex offenders doing these things both in Canada and around the world.
We shouldn't be talking about Canadian mining companies that are engaged in gang rapes, and that's what's happening here in Canada, the United States and around the world. Canada has the legal obligation to stop that, and it has the tools to do that.