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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s legislation to fast-track projects deemed in the national interest is expected to be tabled in the House of Commons in a matter of days but is already facing some resistance from the Assembly of First Nations (AFN). In a letter to Carney dated May 30 obtained by the National Post, AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak wrote that the proposed bill, in its current form, “suggests a serious threat to First Nations exercise of Treaty rights, inherent rights, title and jurisdiction.” Woodhouse Nepinak insisted First Nations’ “free, prior and...