Ottawa’s Indigenous advisers weren’t told of pipeline deal with Alberta: Chief

OTTAWA — A member of the major projects office’s Indigenous advisory council says he and his colleagues were not told in advance of the agreement the federal government signed with Alberta opening a path to a pipeline to B.C.’s coast.

Trevor Mercredi, grand chief of Treaty 8 First Nations in Alberta, says the memorandum of understanding signed last month was “news” to him and his colleagues and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government didn’t tap the council for advice on how to move forward.

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He says he is “very concerned” about the deal being announced without the involvem