Indigenous-led group ready to bid on majority stake in Trans Mountain pipeline

Source: Rachel Aiello, CTV News, July 3, 2019 

OTTAWA — An Indigenous-led group says that it will be ready to submit a bid for a majority stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline and the expansion project as early as next week.

The group, called Project Reconciliation, says that its coming bid will “work for all sides.”

Last month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the federal government would indeed be going ahead with the project after considering Indigenous and environmental concerns. At the time, he announced the Liberals would be talking with Indigenous groups about ways they can share in the benefit of the more than $4.5-billion project.

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