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Gidimt’en Lawsuit, Continue
Surveillance and Harassment
of Land Defenders as Coastal
GasLink Poised to Drill
Headwaters</strong></p>
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been three months since we
filed our lawsuit suing the
RCMP and C-IRG, Minister of
Justice for B.C., Coastal
Gaslink Pipeline LTD., and
private security contractor
Forsythe for loss and damages.
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these three months, the RCMP
have refused to respond to
our lawsuit. So, our lawyers
have provided legal notice
that we intend to apply for
a default decision against
the RCMP. </strong></p>
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GasLink and Forsythe have
responded to our lawsuit,
basically denying their
violence and refusing to
provide any justification for
their constant surveillance
and harassment on the Yintah.</p>
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colonial legal system, a
lawsuit for loss or damages
caused to another person or
another person's property is
known as a civil claim<em>.</em>
In June 2022, Janet Wiliams
and Lawrence Bazil on behalf
of themselves, and Molly
Wickham on behalf of herself
as well as the Gidimt’en Clan
of the Wet’suwet’en Nation
filed a notice of claim in
BC’s Supreme Court to start
the civil legal action. In
this lawsuit, we are holding
the RCMP and C-IRG, Minister
of Justice for B.C., Coastal
Gaslink, and Forsythe
accountable for invading our
privacy, intimidation,
intentional infliction of
mental distress, malicious and
wilful misconduct, assault and
battery, false arrest,
trespass, violations of the
Charter, and more.</p>
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that this legal system is not
built for us. But because we
are right and our ancestors
are with us, we have won in
their courts before. The
authority of the Wet'suwet'en
hereditary house and clan
system was verified in the
historic <em><a
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and <em>Red Top</em> court
decisions. Our Hereditary
Chiefs have maintained their
use and occupancy of their
lands and hereditary
governance system despite
generations of colonial
policies and big industries
that aim to remove us from
this land, assimilate our
people, annihilate our
culture, and ban our governing
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not let the RCMP and C-IRG,
B.C, Coastal GasLink, and
Forsythe go unchallenged in
their attempts to clear the
lands for this pipeline
project and their capitalist,
colonial extraction. Every
day, the government, industry,
and police are invading our
Yintah. Coastal GasLink’s
equipment is currently in a
position to drill beneath the
sacred headwaters of Wedzin
Kwa. </p>
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resistance of our people and
our many allies that has
delayed the pipeline
construction for the past
several years. Under ‘Anuc
niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law)
all Hereditary Chiefs of the
five clans of the Wet’suwet’en
have unanimously opposed all
pipeline proposals and have
not provided free, prior, and
informed consent to Coastal
Gaslink to drill on unceded
and surrendered Wet’suwet’en
lands. They are trying to
drill under the Wedzin Kwa
river, the sacred headwaters
that feeds all of Wet’suwet’en
territory and gives life to
our nation. The pipeline,
spanning 670 kilometers, will
transport fracked gas to the
proposed LNG Canada processing
plant, which is the largest
single private sector
infrastructure project and one
of the largest energy
investments in Canadian
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rise up to defend the Yintah,
we are criminalized. For many
months and many years, we have
face militarized raids of our
village sites on the Yintah.
In three large-scale police
actions in January 2019,
February 2020, and November
2021, a total of 74 people
were arrested and detained,
including legal observers and
members of the media. Since
February 2022, RCMP and C-IRG
have entered our village sites
and home sites multiples times
a day – hundreds of times in
total. RCMP and C-IRG have
continuously harassed and
intimidated our people and our
guests and disrupted our
cultural practices and
ceremonies. This affects our
rights to hunt, trap, fish,
gather, and conduct ceremony
on our Yintah. They have shone
high beams and spotlights into
our residential buildings and
awakened sleeping residents.
The RCMP and C-IRG have also
demanded our identification
and arrested us, including
with the use of pepper spray.
The RCMP and C-IRG have
illegally seized and destroyed
our Gidimt’en property. They
have committed assault and
battery, and prohibited and
blocked our movement on our
own lands. </p>
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