The Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project: Path Dependency in the Crown's Reasoning.
This article examines the production and reproduction of the same arguments made by the Crown in consultations with Indigenous peoples over a controversial resource development project in Canada. To explain the stability of the Crown's reasoning in consultations with Indigenous communities on Trans-...
| Published in: | American Review of Canadian Studies Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 649 - 666 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec 2021
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