Jan 23, 2020
Why we should no longer accept inaction on Indigenous rights from governments.
The British Columbia government has put itself between a rock and a hard place with its stance on the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests.
Premier John Horgan is trying to distance himself and his party from the controversy, suggesting it would be inappropriate for the government to intervene on a legal matter already decided by the courts. “The rule of law needs to prevail in B.C.,” he said last week.
Is he right? Can those of settler heritage stand by and watch as governments, the court and the RCMP use force to override the rights of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs?
I think not.
