Did you know that if you resist illegal trespassers on your land, that under Canadian law you can be charged? No? Well, that’s what happened…
A post on the Facebook site Gitimt’en Access Point says while they are relieved that charges have been dropped, they know the RCMP arrests on unceded lands was unlawful.
The Gitimt’en is one of five clans within the Wet’suwet’en Nation and the site represents a camp where some of the arrests occurred along a logging road toward the pipeline work site.
“Coastal GasLink continues to trespass on our lands under the escort of the RCMP, who maintain an illegal remote police detachment on Wet’suwet’en territory. We are treated as criminals on our own land,” the statement says.