Who’s defending Canada’s national interest? First Nations facing down a pipeline | Martin Lukacs

Justin Trudeau is bailing out a Texas oil billionaire. He should be bailing out Canada's workers and the climate.

Last Saturday, Indigenous leaders stood arm-in-arm in front of the gates of Kinder Morgan's pipeline worksite in Burnaby, British Columbia.

For weeks before, hundreds of non-native people - environmentalists, federal parliamentarians Elizabeth May and Kennedy Stewart, even an engineer formerly employed by the Texas oil corporation - had marched to the same place. In each case, police approached, read aloud their violation of a no-go zone, and arrested and shackled them.