Trudeau was scheduled for a trip to Barbados on his UN Security Council campaign, but will meet with the Incident Response Group instead.
Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said last week that Trudeau should tell Public Safety Minister Bill Blair to use his authority under the RCMP Act to end what he called the “illegal blockades.”But Trudeau shot back, arguing that Canada is not a country “where politicians get to tell the police what to do in operational matters.”
Carolyn Bennett, the minister for Crown-Indigenous relations, is due to meet with her British Columbia counterpart today, Indigenous Relations Minister Scott Fraser. Bennett is also ready to meet with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, should they give the go-ahead.Indigenous services minister meets with protesters
Miller pointed to the Oka and Ipperwash crises as reasons why dialogue is preferable to police intervention in an appearance on CTV’s political show “Question Period.”
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