OTTAWA - A member of the major projects office's Indigenous advisory council says he and his colleagues were not told in advance of the agreement the federal government signed with Alberta opening a path to a pipeline to B.C.'s coast.

Trevor Mercredi, grand chief of Treaty 8 First Nations in Alberta, told a news conference Thursday the memorandum of understanding signed last month was "news" to him and his colleagues and Prime Minister Mark Carney's government didn't tap the council for advice on how to move forward.

"We were not aware of the discussion, we were not aware of how they would like to move it forward," Mercredi said.

"All I can say is that we're very concerned that they made the announcements without the nations of Treaty 8 involved."

The major projects office was the prod

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