{"id":42911,"date":"2019-01-17T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42911"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T15:56:36","slug":"when-indigenous-assert-rights-canada-sends-militarized-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42911","title":{"rendered":"When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__header\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<h3 data-bind=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2019\/01\/17\/Indigenous-Rights-Canada-Militarized-Police\/\">When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police<\/a><\/h3>\n<p data-bind=\"teaser\"><strong>It\u2019s become routine, but ignores latest law on rights and title, say experts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"featured-media\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"02-organisms\/article\/featured-media\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<figure class=\"figure \" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2019\/01\/16\/W-Protest.png\" alt=\"W-Protest.png\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">RCMP action against the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en last week was intended to send a message, says professor Jeffrey Monaghan. <span class=\"caption__media--credit\">Photo by Michael Toledano.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"article__body main-col-container\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__body\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid clearfix \">\n<p>The use of heavily armed RCMP to enforce a court injunction and tear down an Indigenous blockade against TransCanada\u2019s Coastal GasLink pipeline in northwestern British Columbia last week was part of a familiar pattern, say criminologists.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside hide-on-narrow-vp\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/aside\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt seems like Canada uses a show of force and police repression whenever it wants to contain First Nations exercising their aboriginal rights and title,\u201d said Shiri Pasternak, a criminologist at Ryerson University and director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/yellowheadinstitute.org\/\">Yellowhead Institute<\/a>, a research centre focused on First Nations land and governance issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada is creating the problem by refusing to recognize what its own courts are saying about aboriginal rights and title,\u201d added Pasternak.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last decade rulings by the Supreme Court of Canada and lower courts have established that Canadian governments have a duty to consult and accommodate Indigenous people before resources are extracted from their land, and that in many cases their land and title rights have not been extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many elected First Nations governments along the pipeline route, which signed economic benefit agreements with TransCanada, the hereditary chiefs of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation have remained opposed to intrusions on their traditional lands.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Monaghan, a criminology professor at Carleton University who co-authored <a href=\"https:\/\/fernwoodpublishing.ca\/book\/policing-indigenous-movements\"><em>Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State<\/em><\/a> with Andrew Crosby said the dismantling of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en blockade was intended to send a national message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very carefully choreographed to communicate to the national audience that any protests against oil and gas pipelines are going to be cracked down upon. I think it was highly symbolic. Police action doesn\u2019t stop with the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en,\u201d said Monaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police It\u2019s become routine, but ignores latest law on rights and title, say experts. RCMP action against the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en last week was intended to send a message, says professor Jeffrey Monaghan. Photo by Michael Toledano. 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