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According to NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis, the chief problem with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to prioritize “nation building projects” is that they will be a conduit for murder and sexual assault on a grand scale.

On stage at the NDP’s French language leaders’ debate last week, Lewis referred to the various “major projects” being sought by the Carney government as “big, manly things with huge work camps entailed in remote areas.”

“The impacts on Indigenous women and girls are intense, are horrifying,” said Lewis during an English portion of the debate.

While Lewis may be one of the first on a national stage to cast pipelines and hydroelectric dams as instruments of terror, it’s an idea that’s become common among the activist circles that Lewis inhabits.

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