B.C. MLA slams Leonardo DiCaprio for ‘misinformed’ support of pipeline opposition
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"You have no idea what you're talking about," Ellis Ross, B.C. Liberal MLA for Skeena, told Leonardo DiCaprio on Twitter.
In a series of tweets, Skeena B.C. Liberal MLA Ellis Ross called out Hollywood heavyweight Leonardo DiCaprio for his allegedly “misinformed” comment in support of the Wet’sutwet’en Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline opposition.
“You have no idea what you’re talking about,” Ross told DiCaprio on Twitter.
“Give me a call. I’ll tell you the other side of the story as an Aboriginal leader who was on the front of this project from day one.”
Ross’s comments were a response to the American actor’s own tweet in which he highlighted the pipeline opposition in northwest B.C. to his 19.4 million followers on Twitter and shared a video of the RCMP raid posted by the Gidimt’en Checkpoint group.
“After setting up a blockade to protect their land, community, and sacred headwaters Wedzin Kwa from Coastal GasLink’s planned fracked gas pipeline, the Wet’suwet’en Nation has faced militarized raids from the RCMP. We must protect the rights of land defenders,” read DiCaprio’s Nov. 22 tweet.
This is not the first time DiCaprio has been vocal about environmental issues in B.C.
Back in June, he joined a list of celebrities and tweeted in support of protecting old-growth forests in the province in wake of the Fairy Creek blockades on Vancouver Island.