Our CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, writes a guest column in The Province: We have protest groups, we have politicians, we have social-media axe-grinders and we have people with their own legal interpretation of the issues, all arguing back and forth over whether First Nations are governed by hereditary chiefs or elected councillors. But there’s usually something …
Alliance leaders have been talking sense to news media about issues around hereditary chiefs and elected councils. For example, Alliance CEO Karen Ogen-Toews, a former elected chief councillor of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, was on CBC Radio’s Early Edition show, discussing the matter with host Stephen Quinn. Among other things, she said, the people of any …
‘Whether we’re elected chiefs or hereditary chiefs, we must find ways forward for our people.’ And the people are the most important and critical factor. The CBC News story: https://bit.ly/2VYme7F And the audio recording of her interview with CBC Radio’s Stephen Quinn: https://bit.ly/2Hf4OAA
(And was our December busy!) Our social-media traffic soared in December, with big interest in posts that centred on the differences of opinion among elected and hereditary chiefs on the Coastal GasLink natural-gas pipeline, and blockades of the line’s route. The heavy online activity began with a guest column by our Alliance chair, Chief Dan …
