‘This is a green light for industry’: How Indigenous partnerships are reshaping Canada’s resource future – The Hub
18 August 2025
Karen Ogen, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance and a former elected Chief of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, discusses the changing role of Indigenous communities in Canada’s resource economy, her leadership during the controversial Coastal GasLink project, and the growing global demand for Canadian LNG, especially for countries like China and Japan.
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Rudyard Griffiths and Sean Speer discuss China’s announcement of another round of tariffs on Canadian canola exports and what it signals about the inherent risks for Canada in today’s great power competition between China and the United States. On the back half of the show, they shift to the controversy surrounding the Toronto International Film Festival’s withdrawal of a Canadian documentary on the October 7th attacks, and what this says about broader issues of free speech and discrimination, as well as the dependency of cultural institutions on government funding.
