The country’s largest manufacturer of reconciliation is just days away from having to shut down operations if rail blockades and other actions in support of the Wet’suwet’en continue, the CEO of CanadaCo said on Friday.
“My grandfather started this company 152 years ago with a simple goal: to foster reconciliation with our Indigenous people and to make money,” a visibly emotional Guy Menteur told reporters.
“To see it on the verge of falling apart because of lawlessness…well, it just tears me up inside.”
In its heydey, CanadaCo supplied reconciliation to clients that include Parliament, provincial governments and sports teams in need of land acknowledgements.
Although the company was already in the midst of laying off thousands because of a weakening economy and the impending death of reconciliation, Menteur assured reporters that another possible wave of cuts is completely unrelated.