Members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation are suing the RCMP and Coastal GasLink for alleged harassment they claim to have suffered at the hands of police and private security overstepping the boundaries of an injunction guaranteeing the construction of a controversial pipeline.
In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday, two elders and one of the leaders of the protests against Coastal GasLink say they’ve been subject to a “relentless campaign of harassment and intimidation” on unceded territory adjacent to a forest road leading to the pipeline worksite.
Janet Williams, Lawrence Bazil and Molly Wickham — known as Sleydo’ — claim the courts gave
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