oil tanker ban bill, some coastal First Nations are slamming "unelected" senators for even thinking about killing legislation that was promised by the prime minister in the last election. oil tanker ban bill, last week. Please defer to the will of the people and pass into law the oil tanker ban," said Slett, chief of the Heiltsuk Nation. "We don't agree that senators have a democratic mandate, and therefore the legitimacy, to kill this bill." The House of Commons has passed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promised bill banning oil tanker traffic along a stretch of the northern B.C.

Source: CBC News May 28, 2019 20:26 UTC