Rajan Sawhney, centre, said she doesn’t see herself as a pipeline ambassador. Ms. Sawhney, then-minister of trade, immigration and multiculturalism, speaks at an announcement in Calgary, in April, 2023.

Alberta’s Indigenous Affairs Minister is in Kitimat, B.C., this week, but said she is not there as an ambassador for the proposal floated by her government earlier this month to lead an application for a major new oil pipeline to the West Coast.

The minister, Rajan Sawhney, says her meetings with various First Nations leaders this week have been more of a getting-to-know-you exercise, often over coffee and cookies. Pipelines, she said in an interview Tuesday evening, have hardly come up.

Despite this, when it does become the topic of conversation, she said questions have centred on the

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