Mr Getson would do well to consider the potential impacts of such lies.

For a sitting MLA to tell the legislature and anyone listening that the Supreme Court of Canada says CSAM is now "OK" puts kids at risk.

He should retract that statement and apologize immediately.

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8/8 The law is only six years old, but the resolve to protect the coast has held for five decades.

Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee

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7/8 Yet, Alberta is spending $14 million to craft an application, hoping the new "Building Canada Act" offers a loophole to steamroll opposition.

But using federal powers to force a pipeline through unceded territory remains a political minefield few wish to walk.

6/8 Industry remembers the Northern Gateway failure.

Enbridge lost millions when that project collapsed.

Now, with no private backer, Eby dismisses the new pipeline push as a "figment of a communication person’s mind."

5/8 This resistance isn't new; its roots trace back to 1972 and Pierre Trudeau.

Sparked by fears of Alaskan tankers navigating the treacherous Inside Passage, a unified House of Commons declared such traffic "inimical to Canadian interests" over half a century ago.

4/8 Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the north recently to fast-track "nation-building" projects—mines, LNG facilities, and transmission lines.

Conspicuously absent from his list?

The oil pipeline Smith is demanding.

3/8 That consent appears impossible to secure.

Premier David Eby recently joined First Nations leaders to sign the North Coast Protection Declaration.

They cite a $2B "conservation economy" at risk.

"The consequence of a crude-oil spill... would be generations of lost livelihoods."

2/8 Rumors are swirling that Ottawa is considering a "limited exemption" to the ban to appease Alberta.

But West Coast Liberal MPs are sounding the alarm.

They warn that without consent from the province and First Nations, any attempt to circumvent the law is a political non-starter.