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communities with preferential hiring at Oil Sands Mine sites, preferential contracting for
Indigenous businesses and contractors on oil sands mine sites and direct financial benefits to
Indigenous communities from the oil sands producers.
Para 50, recommended language:
“For example, some Indigenous peoples amidst the oil sands in Alberta are living in relative
poverty, which points to whether the industry is really as beneficial to some communities as
has been postulated.”
Para 68, 1st sentence, comments:
Personal health information is protected under legislation.
Para 68, 1st sentence, recommended language:
“Non-personal health and safety information should never be confidential.”
Para 78, comments:
This paragraph makes sweeping allegations without details or documentation that would
allow for verification of the allegations made. Also, this paragraph does not provide
consideration of what is, or is not, lawful under Canadian domestic law. In general, in Canada
protestors are arrested for protesting in an unlawful manner: violently, on private property,
in breach of court order, and such. They are not arrested for protesting as such.
Para 81, 2 last sentences, comments:
These two sentences appear to state facts, but no documentation is cited in support.
Para 84, 1st sentence, comments:
Honour of the Crown (i.e. honouring the Treaties), not the Constitution.
Para 89, 2nd sentence, comments:
This should be clarified. “Laws” are not “recommended.” They are either enforceable, or not
law yet.
Para 92, comments:
These are serious allegations made without any documentation or proof that would allow
verification.
Comments from the province of British Columbia
General considerations:
The report does not always distinguish clearly between the federal and provincial or territorial
governments. At times reference will be made to ‘the government’ without full context or
citations, making it difficult to determine which government is the subject. We presume, for
the purposes of our fact check and review, that such examples are directed at the federal
government unless a province is specifically mentioned. The final report should more clearly
distinguish between the various levels of government.
Para 10, comments:
Footnote #6 is missing.
Para 45, comments:
The Trans Mountain Expansion project is a federally owned and regulated project. Extensive
consultation has been ongoing with First Nations since 2014, and Mutual Benefit Agreements
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