Norway politician greeted by angry Canadian fish farm demonstrators

Irate indigenous people in Canada opposed to fish farming, met Rogaland Conservative Party (H) politician Siri Meling and others, Wednesday.

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The politicians travelled to Canada for meetings with Foreign Minister John Baird, Minister of Fisheries Keith Ashfield and other politicians in Ottawa this week.

Meling was amongst eight people who comprised the Norwegian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment delegation, led by Speaker Dag Terje Andersen.

Having travelled on afterwards to Victoria, in the province of British Columbia, they were met on their arrival by a number of angry indigenous protesters who oppose salmon farming in the region, Canadian paper Times Colonist reports.

“The demonstration was perfectly normal, but three to four people had brought posters and fliers,” Meling tells Aftenbladet

Wasn't surprised

She believes the local paper might have mixed them up with a teachers’ strike that took place simultaneously. Nonetheless, she is aware that parts of the Norwegian business sector are controversial in Canada, both salmon farming and oil sands.

“Consequently, it wasn’t surprising that we were greeted by protesters,” says Meling, who also looked closely at the fish farms to learn more about the Norwegian business.

The remaining parliamentary committee members, together with Rogaland political colleague, Labour’s (Ap) Eirin Sund, will be arriving on Sunday. Amongst other things, they will be visiting the Norwegian oil sands projects.

Sund says, “the project is controversial and we are prepared that someone will tell us what they think about it.”

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