Reconciliation

A question of rights – the Trans Mountain pipeline example

VIDEO: Energy has roiled Canadian politics in the past, but today it's a different game. Climate, indigenous rights, and the role of the courts have completely changed things.

Jeffrey Simpson, author and for 32 years the Globe and Mail’s national affairs columnist, shared his thoughts Oct. 22, 2018 on how the Trans Mountain pipeline evaluation process raises a number of challening questions. The interview, by Stewart Muir of Resource Works, took place after a Positive Energy panel at the University of Ottawa.

BELOW: Muir, left, with Simpson.

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