How Canada can, and must, empower Indigenous communities

The federal government recently spent $4.5 billion dollars to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline, a move that highlights the significant political risk underlying the project’s expansion.

The government purchase was required as a last resort because there’s no private sector appetite to bear the risks.

It’s culminated in a Federal Court of Appeal ruling, halting, at least temporarily, the expansion…

That court ruling made reference to inadequate consultations with Indigenous peoples as a major factor in its decision.

This isn’t surprising.

Many of Canada’s…