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Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs to meet with Federal and Provincial Ministers

The Federal and B.C. Ministers will be meeting with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs on Thursday in Smithers.

B.C. Minister of Indigenous Relation and Reconciliation, Scott Fraser and Federal Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Carolyn Bennett will be participating in the two-day meetings.

Bennett arrived in Smithers Thursday morning (Feb 27).

The first meeting will begin in the afternoon.

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Late Wednesday (Feb 26), there was word the meeting had fallen through but both parties said there was a miscommunication.

According to Coastal GasLink said construction will stop for the next two days while the meetings are underway.

The meeting is also supposed to take place on Friday (Sept 28).

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Lindsay Newman
Lindsay Newman
News Reporter Lindsay joined the MyBulkleyLakesNow news team in 2019. She was born and raised in Cambridge, Ontario where she then moved to Toronto to complete Journalism school at Humber College where she graduated in 2017. Lindsay started her news journey at 680 News- Toronto's largest talk radio station. Lindsay then moved on to 680 News, where she was an audio editor. She has always loved the idea of living in British Columbia since she was a teenager and was excited to make the to move out to Smithers, BC to branch out her journalism skills. In Lindsay's spare time she is usually relaxing with her two cats and in the warmer months going on hikes with her friends and partner.

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