The Death of Reconciliation?: Settler Colonialism, the Wet'suwet'en, and the Coastal GasLink Pipeline
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2023-07-03
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This thesis focuses on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia and the resistance against it by the Wet’suwet’en and other Indigenous land defenders. It uses this conflict to illustrate the differing views on reconciliation in Canada. Throughout three chapters it examines three issues related to this pipeline: Indigenous sovereignty and landownership, environmental racism, and gender-based violence respectively. The argument put forth by this thesis is that all three of these issues are causally connected to each other and strengthen each other’s effects. This thesis argues that all three of these issues find their origin in and are a continuation of the settler colonial project. It concludes that the Canadian governments’ efforts to hold on to these settler colonial systems and structures clashes with Indigenous peoples’ demands for recognition and self-determination. As long as no agreements or alternatives on these issues can be reached, reconciliation will likely be unattainable.
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