Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson faced a failing grade and a cancelled speech at this week's Assembly of First Nations meeting as pushback grows among B.C. chiefs over the government's new energy agreement with Alberta.

Some B.C. chiefs say the Building Canada Act is failing its first test, accusing the Liberals of dodging critical questions about First Nations consent for a proposed pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast.

"His engagement with Coastal First Nations and First Nations in British Columbia, if I was going to grade it — it would be an F," B.C. Regional Chief Terry Teegee of the Assembly of First Nations said.

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