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Calgary, July 2\u2014<\/span><\/strong>An Indigenous-led group that wants to buy a majority stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline says a formal bid could be made as early as this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>When the federal government re-approved the pipeline\u2019s expansion last month, the prime minister said he was open to as high as 100 per cent Indigenous ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Delbert Wapass, Founder and Executive Chair of Project Reconciliation<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThere\u2019s real momentum towards Indigenous ownership,\u201d said Delbert Wapass, Founder and Executive Chair of Project Reconciliation. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see support is growing in governments and among Indigenous people. There is a pipeline to reconciliation and we should take it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Steve Mason serves as its Managing Director, has been heading financing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWe\u2019ve been assembling something that will work for all sides and it will be ready as early as next week. When the government wants to talk, we\u2019ll be ready,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Project Reconciliation\u2019s innovative ownership structure is open to almost 340 First Nations and M\u00e9tis communities in Alberta, B.C., and Saskatchewan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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