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OTTAWA/QUEBECEDITION ■ MONDAY,MARCH9,2020 ■ GLOBEANDMAIL.COM

A Wet’suwet’en hereditary house
chief has become the first one to
declare his support for Coastal
GasLink’s $6.6-billion pipeline
plan, saying the project will raise
the standard of living for Indige-
nous people in northern British
Columbia.
Herb Naziel, who goes by the

hereditary name Samooh, is the

first and so far only house chief

to back the project, breaking

ranks with eight other house

chiefs.

He said he previously took a

neutral position on Coastal Gas-

Link, but now feels compelled to

publicly express his support for

the natural gas pipeline project,

even if it places his hereditary

position at risk.

Mr. Naziel is a heavy-equip-

ment operator for Kyah Re-

sources Inc., which has a $55-mil-

lion construction contract with

Coastal GasLink.

The members of his Wet’suwe-

t’en house group told him at first

not to get involved in the pipe-

line dispute, Mr. Naziel said. “So

that’s why I stayed out of it,” he

said during a 50-minute inter-

view on Sunday from Witset, B.C.

“I don’t want to stir up the nest,

but it’s not right for people to

stop business.”

Mr. Naziel is head chief of

Birchbark House, one of 13 Wet-

’suwet’en Nation hereditary

house groups.

The Wet’suwet’en Nation com-

prises five clans, under which

there are the 13 house groups,

each with a hereditary head chief

position (four are currently va-

cant). Eight of the nine men who

serve as hereditary house chiefs,

spanning the five clans, are op-

posed to the Coastal GasLink

pipeline.

Coastal GasLink has reached

agreements to garner support

from 20 elected First Nation

councils, including five elected

Wet’suwet’en band councils,

along the pipeline route.

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BRENTJANGVANCOUVER

U.S. President Donald Trump is

dispatching his point man on

Huawei Technologies to Ottawa

Monday to press the Trudeau

government on barring the Chi-

nese telecom giant from next-

generation 5G wireless networks

in Canada.

Robert Blair, White House spe-

cial representative for interna-

tional telecommunications, will

belayingoutU.S.national-securi-

ty objections over Huawei’s 5G

wireless gear in a meeting with

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair

and senior officials from the de-

partments of Innovation, Foreign

Affairs and Defence, Canadian

and U.S. sources say. The Globe

and Mail is keeping their names

confidential because they are not

authorized to publicly comment

on the matter.

The U.S. source said that the

special representative, who is

deputy White House chief of staff

as well, will also warn Canada

that it could lose access to sensi-

tive intelligence if Huawei is al-

lowed to sell its 5G gear to Cana-

dian wireless carriers. This is the

firsthigh-levelU.S.visittoOttawa

thatissolelyinsupportoftheU.S.

campaign to press allies to bar

Huawei from Western telecom-

munications infrastructure.

Washington had also planned

to send deputy national-security

adviser Matthew Pottinger and

economic adviser Larry Kudlow,

but they had to cancel to deal

with the coronavirus crisis, ac-

cording to the sources.

The Trump administration,

U.S. national intelligence agen-

ciesandCongresshaveledaglob-

al campaign against Huawei, ar-

guing that it poses a risk to West-

ernnationalsecurity.Othercoun-

tries building 5G networks

without Huawei for this reason

include Australia, South Korea,

India, Japan and Taiwan.

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ROBERTFIFE

STEVENCHASE

OTTAWA

Milan became the European version of Wu-

han, China, over the weekend, when the bus-

tling commercial hub and 14 regions in

northern Italy went into lockdown, putting

16 million people – equivalent to almost half

the population of Canada – into isolation.

The extreme measures came two days af-

ter Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte

closed all the schools, including universities,

and one day after Italy’s coronavirus infec-

tionandfatalitycountsurged.BySunday,Ita-

ly had reported 7,375 COVID-19 cases – up by

1,492 in 24 hours – and 366 fatalities so far.

Italy now has more confirmed cases than

South Korea and second to China where the

outbreak started.

Mr. Conte signed the sweeping lockdown

decree early on Sunday morning, banning

the movement of people in and out of Lom-

bardy, Italy’s wealthiest and most populous

region, whose main city is Milan. Lombardy

emerged as the European epicentre of the

coronavirus outbreak two weeks ago, when

10 towns just south of Milan and one town in

the adjacent Veneto region were placed into

quarantine, affecting 50,000 people.

“We are facing a national emergency,” Mr.

Conte said. “We want to contain the spread of

thecontagionandavoidoverloadingthehos-

pitals.”

The decree also applies to parts of Emilia-

Romagna (whose biggest city is Bologna),

Piedmont (Turin), Veneto (Venice) and the

Marches (Ancona).

The draconian restrictions will result in

the closing of ski resorts, the cancellation of

funerals and weddings and allow only small

groups into stores, where customers are re-

quiredtostayonemetreapartfromeachoth-

er. It bans any public gatherings that “do not

allowasafetydistanceofatleastonemetreto

be respected.”

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ERICREGULY

EUROPEANBUREAUCHIEF

ROME

Ottawa will airlift more than 230 Canadian

passengers stranded aboard a cruise ship off

the coast of California to an Ontario military

base, the federal government said Sunday.

Global Affairs Canada said it had secured a

plane to transport Canadians on board the

GrandPrincesstoCanadianForcesBaseTren-

ton, where they will be quarantined for 14

days. Passengers will be screened for symp-

toms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the

novel coronavirus, before being allowed to

return to Canada.

“Iftheyexhibitsymptoms,theywillnotbe

permitted to board and will instead be fur-

ther assessed to determine next steps,” the

department said.

The government decided to repatriate

Canadians on the Grand Princess after a re-

quest from the U.S., Foreign Affairs Minister

François-Phillippe Champagne said.

The Grand Princess, carrying more than

3,500passengersandcrew,hasbeensittingin

thewatersoffSanFranciscosinceWednesday

night, after California Governor Gavin News-

om announced last week he would not allow

the ship to dock at its regular terminal over

fears of spreading the virus. The 15-day Ha-

waiian cruise was cut short after news that a

71-year-old California passenger who had

beenontheshipforapreviouscruisetoMex-

ico had died of complications from the novel

coronavirus, which has sickened more than

100,000 people worldwide.

U.S. health officials say 21 people aboard

the ship have tested positive for the virus – 19

crew and two passengers.

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