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🏨🌄 Kate and Mike interview First Nations leader and president of Nanwakolas Council Dallas Smith. Smith discusses the progress of reconciliation, Bill 14 and 15 and the importance of being “in the canoe”, the Great Bear Rainforest, and his work as an Indigenous advocate for salmon aquaculture. He closes with a reflection on Canada Day, honouring Kwakwaka’wakw artist Curtis Wilson who designed the iconic Canadian Indigenous flag.

In the Strategy Suite, Mike and Kate are joined by Duncan Wlodarczak, head of the federal Liberal wing in BC. The trio discuss the first LNG cargo leaving BC, Chrystia Freeland’s intervention on BC Ferries’ China-built vessels backed by federal financing, and is Mark Carney a progressive conservative? Geoff is away on the high seas this week.

Join Mike McDonald, Kate Hammer, and Geoff Meggs for insights and interviews covering the latest in B.C. politics.

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"It all fits" with Dallas Smith + Duncan Wlodarczak