Trio of New Democrat MPs sign petition criticizing B.C. NDP government in Wet’suwet’en dispute
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The MPs joined 15 former federal candidates and around 1,000 NDP grassroots members saying they are ``angered'' by actions toward Indigenous protesters opposing a gas pipeline.
Three federal New Democrat MPs have signed a petition denouncing British Columbia’s NDP government for its handling of an Indigenous protest at a pipeline work site and voicing distress at the federal NDP’s response.
The B.C. RCMP arrested several people, including a photojournalist and a documentary filmmaker, last month when officers moved to enforce an injunction barring protesters from blocking an access road used by Coastal GasLink workers.
The office of B.C. Premier John Horgan said in a statement that “elected officials in B.C. do not direct police operations.”
Lori Idlout, the Nunavut MP and NDP spokesperson on Crown-Indigenous relations, joined MPs Matthew Green and Leah Gazan, in signing the petition.
The NDP MPs joined 15 former federal candidates and around 1,000 NDP grassroots members saying they are “angered” by actions toward Indigenous protesters who oppose the pipeline in their traditional territories in northern B.C.
The petition endorses a statement by young Quebec NDP members, which called on federal leader Jagmeet Singh “to publicly denounce the violence enacted against members of Wet’suwet’en First Nation by the RCMP.”
It expresses “dismay and anger at the federal NDP’s statement in response to these events, which obscures the oppressive role the RCMP and BCNDP are playing in perpetuating colonial violence.”
The statement also condemns “individuals and entities that are willing to turn a blind eye to colonialism for the sake of political expediency.”
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