Wet'suwet'en pipeline supporters feel shut out of talks, ministers told

Federal cabinet ministers are facing pointed questions about why elected band chiefs and women of the Wet'suwet'en Nation who support a disputed natural gas pipeline in British Columbia were not part of meetings with federal and provincial cabinet ministers aimed at de-escalating tensions. Conservative MPs pressed Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller on how band council chiefs who had signed deals for a project they believed would benefit their communities felt shut out of the talks. Theresa Tait-Day of the Wet'suwet'en Matrilineal Coalition says the chiefs who took part in meetings with Ottawa and B.C. don't speak for the whole nation. (March 10, 2020.) Use our news video on your website or broadcast: http://www.thecanadianpress.com/multi... THE CANADIAN PRESS   / cdnpress     / thecanadianpress   The Canadian Press is Canada’s most trusted news leader in providing real-time, bilingual multimedia content for online, mobile and emerging platforms.