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Is this the 'healing' that is supposed to occur after learning those residential schools?
Indigenous peoples protect most of the worlds biodiversity. Stand with them and shut ish down.
HuevosDiablo
These the guys who dug up a road and stranded a bunch of workers in camp?
EverNotRelevant
All fucking cops, at home and abroad.
physicsdoc
Super convenient for my ignorant ass when only the bad guys show up with guns; just in case people still weren't sure which side was which.
chefsoda
Learning from their southern neighbors, hooray ?
EverNotRelevant
Oh please, we both learned it by watching daddy Britain.
chefsoda
That's not untrue, but it's be great if we could shed some of these paradigms
boujer2000
Please remember that IMGUR is a social media site and not a reliable source for news.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
I fucking hate my country sometimes.
Rodenbeard
Nice to see we play nice at COP then immediately bust up first nations in the name of fossil fuels. We're done for.
FailedCrate
Fuck RCMP. Racist, fascist cunts. Also fuck the fossil fuel industry & their politician minions. Fuck the neolibs.
011100000110100101100101
Don't know why you're getting downvoted?? I agree, fuck them, and the neoliberal hegemony that put them there
Shargan8
Don't let those red uniforms confuse you, RCMP is ACAB too
Monkeynutsjoe
I wonder how it feels when you realise you joined to serve and protect but instead you became corporate muscle?
OverpricedCrayon
I do wonder that. Statistically they can’t all agree with it, right? Why don’t some refuse orders or something? I’d think at least one would
somnif
I wonder how many cops actually sign up to protect and serve, rather than for some power fantasy/bully instinct
ArkoneAxon
A lot of them... sad to say, they tend to resign or get fired. They don't fit with the "culture."
Maelwrath
They're protecting and serving corporate interests.
GhostofCharlieKirk
Canada is asshoe
FerbIsMySpiritAnimal
So... I feel relieved this wasn't Americans for once.
UserSubHunterOfIndeterminateGender
Also, if you map known human trafficking routes and compare them to maps of oil and gas projects, they look almost coincidental.
imeanYUUUGE
Breaking: The same people raping the planet are selling your family, more at 11.
Akalenedat
O&G roughnecks love hookers, and plenty of them don't care how the women became hookers...
mijitdragun
RCMP doing what they were created to do: control the indigenous.
ElorYosnak
Please put sources so that we can help with this situation, even if it's just petitions or how to contact local government.
LMTMFA
Red Cold Milli Peppers
zanaria
The rich will never be satisfied until they have completely destroyed the planet. They care nothing for long term, just want a quick buck
Htdgdhfffff
This is gonna be weird
Pres9
Seriously this is the most fucked up shit
williamrichards
Do some research into it. "Hereditary Elders" isn't what you think it means.
jatene
where in Canada is this?
IfWereStillAliveInTheMorningThenWellKnowWereNotDead
Is this real? Why the fuck isn’t this news. CBC really fucking up.
ElSuperbeasto
Arresting tribal elders?! WTF
SumdumCanadiun
Heridatary elders. Not the actual elected band council and chiefs. 'my dad was the boss so I wanna be too' mentality
IainG101
And said hereditarty tribal elders are protesting a pipeline that the elected indigenous leaders unanimously approved....
seedye
Some infuriating background that’s 1 yr old https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rr9_t2pymcI
beezzarro
Horgan sends in his pigs in the middle of a provincial emergency to safeguard oil and gas interests, turning away food and medical supplies
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LumpWithaLeafHat
I believe it but still would like citations.
kaoticgirl
As an SD resident, this does not surprise me in the least.
diselage
would be more shocked if the opposite happened.
NotAPervert
Is there a source actually showing these documents that anyone can link? I’ve only seen references to the same article every time
AtomicTincan
And this is just for some locals, less cultured people. Imagine what they do when someone who actually has the power to stop them comes.
Bukkhockey
They care about the oil itself, not the companies, that's the thing they're willing to kill to protect.
override367
No they don't, what? That's stupid. What are you on? It's still Canada's oil even after being refined, they're just paying to refine it
Bukkhockey
Judging by your response, you're not too bright, but lack of oil resources, would bring the country and military to a halt. It's important.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Which time?
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Yes.
chefsoda
All of them?
Fyreworx
Rangermcclure
No links??
Juicytoast
Wasn't there massacre in the 1800s that happened because a group of miners went on strike and the company hired a malitia to make them....
Juicytoast
Go back to work. And it escalated to the militia firing. Iirl it happened in West Virginia
DYLANLEE79
Are RCMP cops or military? Sorry I don't speak moose.
R100GSPD
Federal police
Jopler420
and in most places, the only police
DustinDustyDust
They're incompetent. Not that I stand with these lazy protestors with nothing better to do. I'm sure they don't have jobs they need to be a
chetnixandflill
Canadian FBI
Canadianfartnoises
They were created to literally police Aboriginal peoples to keep white people safe.
Kingstonboy
well, they are close in ideals, the military beat up civilians when they're drunk, the RCMP rape indigenous women when they're sober.
SerenePrincess013
I want to argue. But a friend of mine told me a story about this RCMP who used to come to her tribal lands, & was so interested in her.>
SerenePrincess013
Last I heard, he stopped coming around, & she was pregnant. She stopped responding to my texts right around the time the baby was born.
beezzarro
They're like paramilitary FBI for Canada.
zeroisnothing
Racists, mostly.
Kingstonboy
very. they take courses in it, if they aren't already experts
tigeraid
boy howdy are they ever
NicolasKevinMac
Some of both. They're federal police, but some amount of nat'l intelligence work and international peace-keeping are part of their mandate.
DustinDustyDust
They're neither of those things. They're regular police for rural areas
FetaForMoses
Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
Baelnorn
Which were originally established as a gendarmerie. It's not an entirely unreasonable question.
DYLANLEE79
I know what it stands for... But I don't know their authority/mission/jurisdiction.
WillTheRealObiWanPleaseStandUp
Anything within Canada. And in some provinces they act as the provincial police.
ZeroLogain
Closest equivalent we have to the FBI.
therealbardman
It’s crazy that those guys in green camo are police. The militarization of police is a backward step for society.
blaghart
the RCMP are more like the GIGN or the National Guard, they're technically a home guard military force.
DonnaNobleInTheLibrary
Even happening in Germany. Bavarian police got army-green AFVs with 50 cal MG mounted. For hostage situations and such.
DonnaNobleInTheLibrary
https://twitter.com/PolizeiMFR/status/1333397432479133708
DonnaNobleInTheLibrary
That's the official reasoning, btw! They'd need those for terrorist attacks like Bataclan or in Vienna last year.
somnif
Equivalent to our FBI
NicolasKevinMac
Overlaps with your FBI, Marshals Service, National Guard, and local cops. There isn't a direct corresponding org in the US as far as I know.
probablyobvious
No, it's more like FBI, state trooper, and city cops rolled into one. The RCMP is massive
somnif
I hadn't thought of that, your 'territories' are considered federal land as well. Man thinking of the FBI as beat cops is weird.
Hurro
Canada's law enforcement, as opposed to provincial/state or city. They can operate across borders with full jurisdiction.
voidedone
But they still can't buy the right color camo for snow.
caribou3
they are police. their job is to be seen not blend in.
gnichtsan1329
Then they should not wear cameo at all
samuelwestphalia
If I had to guess, the guys in the green fatigues are probably not the police being spoken of, but rather some national guard equivalent.
ArchEnemyDemon
Basically think of the Canadian FBI loose equivalent
Hurro
That's where I wanted to go, too, but it wasn't a straight across comparable.
waitwhat1234
CSIS is the FBI equivalent. RCMP are police.
Hurro
Does CSIS work nationally only or internationally, too?
waitwhat1234
Both.
afatrollofmyown
So then, are they federal marshalls?
waitwhat1234
A police force that has jurisdiction over a large area of the country. Major cities and towns have their own police force as well.
DVSBSTrD
THIS is why the Navajo should've bought Remington when they had the chance.
blaghart
If they had Remington would have shut down entirely because white racists would have refused to buy from it.
peterbozeman
Not if they kept making the Tac-13. Those things are selling for three times original price.
blaghart
you are grossly underestimating the eagerness of right wingers to cancel people for racist reasons lol
Bystandr
Already happened in modern times in Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oka-crisis take note that the restraint the
Bystandr
Canadian army and Mohawk warriors showed there. It could have been much worse. The government should stand down to avoid loss of life. It
Bystandr
isnt worth any amount of pride to do an injustice to its people. Given the land was never ceded, settlement needs to precede development
Bystandr
without the bands' permission.
gentlementhoughts
The gun or the place?
WoodORama
The 80s television show starring Pierce Brosnan.
TaintToucher
The musical
mistermiggs
thrashingcows
Meltemi
It seems it was the company, looking around. It seems that after the deal fell through, the company was chopped up for parts last year.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
If they showed up with guns the government would just use it as an excuse to go in with additional force.
DontTazeMeBrah
the razor duh
Zreen
the guitar
biggerhammertx
We signed a Treaty. First they took our guns. Then they took our Horses. Then finally they took our lands. Then the Trail of Tears .
Natdictit
Don’t forget the 2nd and 3rd trail of tears
Subjugatealllife
This is why people have always been, and are still afraid of giving up their guns. You’re basically giving away your only recourse.
invaderjay87
You think they won’t shoot Natives with guns?
Subjugatealllife
It would have made them think twice.
biggerhammertx
You think they won't shoot Natives WITHOUT guns? LOL!!
invaderjay87
Using force gives them legal right to use force back. It’s EXACTLY what they want. For you to give them a reason to start shooting.