Silent No More: A Sikh Response to the Idle No More Movement

I have been scanning the online world for months now trying to find a way to explain how I feel and why I support the “Idle No More” movement  and finally someone elegantly wrote a wonderful fresh perspective that I want to share.  Now you could be asking why I don’t write my own blog about this topic…well honestly I am so close to it that I feel it would be too biased and emotional.  This article is factual and clear, it needs to be shared and I cannot relate to the author since he’s Sikh and I am not.  I hope you enjoy it and I look forward to starting a dialogue in regards to this article.  Thanks for reading! – Michelle

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UNION OF BC INDIAN CHIEFS – NEWS RELEASE

First Nation Leadership Council Open Letter: Federal Announcement of the Responsible Resource Development Plan 

April 19, 2012

Honourable Joe Oliver
Ministry of Natural Resources Canada
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6

Sent via facsimile: 613-943-1562

OPEN LETTER: Federal Announcement of the Responsible Resource Development Plan (April 17th, 2012)

Dear Minister Oliver:

We are writing with respect to your government’s shocking announcement to completely gut the environmental assessment process. We are gravely concerned with this announcement to eviscerate the process for environmental review on resource development projects after the changes lay waste to the credibility of the process. Continue reading