![The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) wrote a letter condemning “the Governments of Canada and of the Province of British Columbia for their use of force, surveillance, and criminalization of land defenders and peaceful protesters to intimidate, remove and forcibly evict Secwepemc and Wet’suwet’en Nations from their traditional lands, in particular by the RCMP, the Community-Industry Response Group (CIRG), and private security firms.”
In the letter, CERD “regrets” that Canada’s interpretation of the declaration is to “guarantee a process, but not a particular result.”... suggesting that Canada believes it can override a nation’s consent if it wants to, forcing projects on an Indigenous nation.
In December 2019, the Committee urged the State party to cease forced evictions.
CERD “profoundly regrets and is concerned” about the increased acts of Secwepemc and Wet’suwet’en peoples.
“In a recent interview, Wet’suwet’en hereditary Chief Namoks called the ongoing colonization of his nation a human rights issue that is being ignored and if land defenders didn’t protest, governments and businesses would ‘just steamroll through’.”
“You know what the largest and longest-running industry in Canada is, ever since Canada became a country? Indigenous people,” he said. “Ever since contact, they've been constantly under [government’s] thumb.
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