Rally held in Toronto in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs

About 100 people gathered along Toronto's rail lines on Sunday in support of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs fighting against the construction of a pipeline through their territory following multiple arrests in northern B.C.

The demonstration began at Bartlett Avenue, near Dupont and Dufferin streets, around 11 a.m.

"The goal today here is to be in support of the Wet'suwet'en land defenders that were forced off their territory at gunpoint," Eve Saint, a Wet'suwet'en land defender in Toronto, told CP24 Sunday morning. "Up to 50 to 100 RCMP went in there, guns fully loaded, TAC teams … that is wrong."

On Friday, RCMP arrested 15 people—including two journalists—following protests that blocked access to a road used by Coastal GasLink pipeline workers.

On Sunday, a large group of people gathered near the Canadian Pacific rail lines, holding signs that said "no pipeline," "stop RCMP invasion of Indigenous land," and " Wet’suwet’en solidarity."