Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with a First Nations advocacy group Jan. 13 to discuss a potential oil pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson and Housing Minister Gregor Robertson will accompany Carney to Prince Rupert, B.C., for the meeting with the Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative, a non-profit advocacy group that includes a number of members of B.C. coastal First Nations.
The meeting will be Hodgson and Carney’s first with the advocacy group, which opposes any lifting of the oil tanker ban on B.C.’s north coast and the construction of any oil pipeline to northern B.C. tidewater….