Say hello to pro-pipeline First Nations in B.C.

Listen to the premier of British Columbia, or the CBC, or the Association of First Nations and you’d think that Indigenous groups on the West Coast are determined to stop a new oil pipeline from Alberta. Yet as MP Ellis Ross, former chief councillor of the Haisla Nation near Kitimat, B.C., tells Brian Lilley, a lot of First Nations are open to the opportunity for resource development to help them break their dependency on Ottawa and find prosperity for their people. He also talks about how American anti-oil groups are exploiting First Nations by offering them much-needed funding in exchange for backing their activist campaigns — like the widely quoted “Coastal First Nations” group that doesn’t even represent the area’s First Nations. (Recorded Dec. 5, 2025)