by hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en people has raised some thorny constitutional questions and some surprising interventions. The pipeline is supported by the five Wet’suwet’en bands, and their elected chiefs and councils. The elected chiefs beg to differ, resulting in considerable tension between the two groups. Dwight Newman, the Canadian research chair in Indigenous Rights at the University of Saskatchewan, said the task of reconciling how Indigenous law intersects with Canadian law will be problematic. Supreme Court rightly concluded, it does not mean Indigenous law trumping Canadian law at the behest of some self-anointed Indigenous aristocrats.

Source: National Post January 30, 2020 22:18 UTC