Police use a water cannon on protesters during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith - D1BEUOBKNBAA
RCMP used the anti-pipeline resistance at the Standing Rock reservation in 2016 to justify creating a unit in British Columbia to police similar opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, newly released documents show.Police use a water cannon on protesters near Cannon Ball, N.D., in November 2016, during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
"A protracted and sometimes violent protest and police confrontation occurred in Standing Rock, North Dakota," wrote McDonald in a Jan. 17, 2017, proposal. The C-IRG's focus was to be solely the Trans Mountain pipeline, the slide says, before elaborating on the Mounties' approach to profiling the activists involved.
"The C-IRG is a temporary project team that is to exist for the duration of the construction," said a 2018 consultation document for the B.C. government. "Temporary project team" was underlined in the slide. Monaghan said the slide could be seen as demonstrating political bias against Indigenous rights activists, particularly through the framing of the standoffs as resource protests rather than land disputes.
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