{"id":482862,"date":"2022-01-24T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=125729"},"modified":"2022-01-24T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T19:30:09","slug":"activists-in-canada-build-construction-site-on-pipeline-executives-front-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/24\/activists-in-canada-build-construction-site-on-pipeline-executives-front-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists in Canada Build Construction Site on Pipeline Executives\u2019 Front Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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World Beyond War<\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto, Ontario, Canada \u2014 This morning, Toronto supporters of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en land defense struggle against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline set up construction sites at the Toronto homes of TC Energy Board Chair Siim Vanaselja and Royal Bank of Canada Executive Doug Guzman. The supporters also flyered the neighborhood with photos of the two men with signs warning, \u201cYour neighbour is pushing the Coastal Gaslink pipeline through Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Territory at gunpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rachel Small, Canada Organizer for World BEYOND War, said, \u201cToday supporters took action to bring the message home to Siim Vanaselja and Doug Guzman, two men leading companies that are orchestrating, funding, and profiting off of the violent colonial invasion of unceded Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory. The decisions they make are directly linked to the militarized violence that the RCMP has carried out on Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en people over the past several months to shove through the Coastal Gaslink pipeline at gunpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November, RCMP deployed military-style police units \u2013 including snipers, heavily-armed assault teams, and canine units \u2013 against unarmed Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en land defenders during a raid on land defense camps set up to stop pipeline construction crews from drilling under the Wedzin Kwa river. During these raids, the RCMP destroyed several of the land defenders\u2019 homes, using axes and a chainsaw, and burned one home to the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe home of my sister, Jocelyn Alec, was burned down and bulldozed after she was violently arrested and removed at gunpoint,\u201d said Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Land Defender Eve Saint. \u201cShe is the daughter of Hereditary Chief Woos, and her home was on our traditional, unceded Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rachelle Friesen from Community Peacemaker Teams expressed support for the action, \u201cWe can\u2019t stand by and let executives like Siim and Doug continue to ignore the impacts of their decisions while militarized police force through their investments. Across Turtle Island people are rising up to show that we will not back down until the Coastal Gaslink pipeline project and the RCMP leave Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

TC Energy is constructing Coastal GasLink, a $6.6 billion dollar 670 km pipeline that would transport fracked gas in northeastern B.C. to a $40 billion LNG terminal on B.C.\u2019s North Coast. The project runs through the unceded territory of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Nation and has been met with ongoing resistance from the nation\u2019s hereditary leadership who hold authority over traditional territories. Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en land defenders and their supporters have vowed that they will not allow construction to continue on unceded Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory without the consent of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary Chiefs.<\/p>\n

RBC is one of the Coastal GasLink pipeline\u2019s primary financiers, and played a leading role in securing the project finance package that would cover up to 80% of the pipeline\u2019s construction costs.<\/p>\n

On January 4, 2020, Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary Chiefs issued an eviction order to Coastal GasLink, which one of the nation\u2019s five clans, the Gidimt\u2019en, enforced in November by blocking roads and preventing pipeline workers from accessing work sites. The eviction orders Coastal GasLink to remove themselves from the territory and not return and highlights that TC Energy\u2019s construction on Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en land ignores the jurisdiction and authority of Hereditary Chiefs and the feast system of governance, which was recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1997.<\/p>\n

Said Gidimt\u2019en spokesperson Sleydo\u2019 of the ongoing invasion of unceded Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territory, \u201cIt\u2019s infuriating, it\u2019s illegal, even according to their own means of colonial law. We need to shut down Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

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World Beyond War Toronto, Ontario, Canada \u2014 This morning, Toronto supporters of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en land defense struggle against the Coastal Gaslink pipeline set up construction sites at the Toronto homes of TC Energy Board Chair Siim Vanaselja and Royal Bank of Canada Executive Doug Guzman. The supporters also flyered the neighborhood with photos of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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