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Monday 24 February 2020

Wetsuweten solidarity reshapes and sustains the land callled Canada

First Nations have made the point before: this is their land to protect but in the current dispute there is comething different: perhaps never before has the importance of protecting the land that became known as Canada engaged so many, especially young people, beyond its original First Nations stewards. Canada depends on the richness of the land for all its wealth, but if extraction destroys it then Canada is imperilled. Seen rightly then, current transportation blockages are sustainability measures, not the economic plagues some short-term psofiteers are making them out to be. By making this point all those supporting the Wetsuweten protests, whatever their origins and whether aboriginal, or settler, environmentalists in their values, are united in conserving this land. Far from dividing those who live here the Wetsuweten protest has the unique potential to bring together as one all who live here in common loyalty to the land called Canada, the lifesource of all who live here.               

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