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Coastal GasLink estimates that its
B.C. pipeline project would pump
$115-million during a 25-year peri-
od to five elected Wet’suwet’en
band councils and generate more
than $60-million in construction
contracts for local Indigenous
businesses in the region.

According to documents ob-

tained by The Globe and Mail, five

elected Wet’suwet’en councils

along the controversial pipeline

route would receive the cash dis-

tributions totalling $4.6-million a

year, also known as “annual lega-

cy payments” that would last a

quarter-century. The five councils

have supported the pipeline.

Those estimates are set out in a

letter sent in 2014 by Coastal Gas-

Link to the Office of the Wet’su-

wet’en, a non-profit society gov-

erned by hereditary chiefs.

Coastal GasLink posted a re-

dacted version of the eight-page

letter on its website last month,

blacking out one entire page and

portions of two other pages. The

Globe has obtained an unredact-

ed copy, marked confidential, re-

vealing details under a section ti-

tled “Economic opportunities

available to the Wet’suwet’en

people from Coastal GasLink.”

Hereditary leaders and envi-

ronmental groups have charac-

terized the elected Wet’suwet’en

councils’ agreements – the finan-

cial size of which have been kept

secret for years – as a strategy by

Coastal GasLink to buy the sup-

port of Indigenous people.

A group of Wet’suwet’en

hereditary chiefs oppose the

$6.6-billion pipeline project, say-

ing they have jurisdiction over

their unceded territory, not elect-

ed band councils on federal re-

serves under the Indian Act.

Since Feb. 6, protests and

blockades have spread across

Canada in support of Wet’suwe-

t’en hereditary chiefs who are

fighting Coastal GasLink’s plan to

build a natural gas pipeline.

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British Columbia has identified

Canada’s first-known case of

community transmission of the

novel coronavirus, marking a

pivotal moment in the country’s

battle against the outbreak.

Provincial Health Officer Bon-

nie Henry announced the case

on Thursday along with seven

other new B.C. cases. She said the

patient, a woman in her 50s, has

not recently travelled and has no

known contacts with any other

known cases of COVID-19. She

was diagnosed while being

screened for influenza at a pub-

lic-health laboratory.

Public health experts have in

recent weeks been expecting and

preparing for the local spread of

the disease in Canada.

“This is a community case,”

Dr. Henry said. “We are doing a

detailed investigation right now

to try and determine where her

source of infection was.”

Community spread is signifi-

cant because it means the virus

could be spreading untraced

since there is no clear link to the

source of the disease.

British Columbia, and some

hospitals in Ontario, recently

added COVID-19 testing to exist-

ing influenza surveillance net-

works, meaning that a broad

range of people with flu-like

symptoms are being tested for

the virus regardless of travel his-

tory.

Stephen Hoption Cann, a clin-

ical professor and epidemiolo-

gist in the School of Population

and Public Health at the Univer-

sity of British Columbia, said

finding a case of community

spread is significant, although

not surprising.

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The Albertagovernment plans to increase
its industrial carbon tax to $50 a tonne to
keep in line with federal requirements
and prevent Ottawa from imposing its
own levy on the province’s oil and gas sec-
tor.
Ottawa approved Alberta’s industrial
carbon-pricing system last fall but made it
clear that the province would only see a
long-term reprieve from the national tax if
the price increased in step with the federal
benchmark, which is set to hit $50 by 2022.
The province had yet to commit to that.
Alberta has repeatedly clashed with the
federal government on the climate-
change file and is currently challenging
the separate consumer carbon tax in
court. The tax on industrial emissions is
not part of that legal case and Premier Ja-
son Kenney has pointed to the industry
tax as proof that hisgovernment is serious

about working with Ottawa to curb green-

house-gas emissions.

Mr. Kenney has now confirmed that his

United Conservative Partygovernment

will increase the rate of its Technology In-

novation and Emissions Reduction levy,

or TIER, from its current price of $30 a

tonne to stay within the federal require-

ments.

“We are tracking the federal price for

our major emitters’ portion,” he told The

Globe and Mail in a recent interview.

“We’re going to $30 to $40 to $50. It’s in

our budget.”

Last week’s provincial budget did not

explicitly mention the increased TIER

price, but it did forecast higher revenue

from the levy, reaching $485-million by

2022-23 from $421-million in 2020-21. The

proceeds from the tax will be used in part

to fund emissions-reducing technology,

with a sizable portion also flowing into

general revenue to fund thegovernment’s

operating budget.

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A 14-year-old Toronto boy who was abduct-
ed on his way to school on Wednesday is an
innocent pawn in a failed multimillion-
dollar cocaine deal, police say.
The search for Shammah Jolayemi
stretched into its second full day on Thurs-
day as scrutiny fell upon the boy’s school
for failing to report his absence for hours.
Superintendent Steve Watts told report-

ers the teen’s step-brother, Olalekan Osi-

koya, owes money in relation to a 100-kilo-

gram cocaine theft last summer. The co-

caine has a street value of $4-million. Mr.

Osikoya has fled the Greater Toronto Area,

but is co-operating with police.

“We believe that Shammah was abduct-

ed as retribution for an unpaid drug debt,”

said Supt. Watts, commander of the Orga-

nized Crime Enforcement Unit, adding

that the teen has no involvement in the

drug business.

Supt. Watts indicated that investigators

have communicated with the abductors,

but gave no details about whether a ran-

som was demanded.

“We would encourage those who took

Shammah to drop him off in a safe place,

contact a lawyer and turn yourselves in,”

Supt. Watts said.

“This is a 14-year-old innocent child,” he

added. “He is not part of that business. He

is not a part of that lifestyle.”

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