On Point With Alex Pierson

Amid rising tensions in northern B.C. – where Indigenous protesters are preventing a pipeline company from accessing an area in which it plans to work- dozens of people showed up at rallies in downtown Calgary and downtown Edmonton on Tuesday afternoon to show solidarity with members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. The pipeline would carry natural gas from B.C.’s Peace River region to the northern Pacific coast. In addition to those who turned up in Calgary to show solidarity with protesters behind the blockade in B.C., about the same number of people turned up to voice support for pipelines. According to the Canadian Press, the pro-pipeline crowd was encouraged to come out by Canada Action, a Calgary-based lobbying group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices