Aboriginal rights a threat to Canada’s resource agenda, documents reveal

Idle No More protest near Sarnia, Ontario, on January 5, 2012, that blocked border crossing.

Canadian government closely monitoring how legal rulings and aboriginal protest pose an increasing ‘risk’ for multi-billion dollar oil and mining plans

By Martin Lukacs and Shiri Pasternak, The Guardian, March 2014

The Canadian government is increasingly worried that the growing clout of aboriginal peoples’ rights could obstruct its aggressive resource development plans, documents reveal.