Feds’ response to Wet’suwet’en human rights case ‘embarrassing’: Amnesty International
Amnesty International Canada has expressed disappointment with Canada’s remarks to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in response to allegations of serious human rights abuses against the group of Wet’suwet’en pipeline opponents who have been arrested over the past few years.
On completion, the pipeline will deliver natural gas from the Dawson Creek area to an LNG Canada facility under construction in Kitimat. Although the Canadian government had advance access to the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s written submission to the IACHR, Hugh Adsett, Canada’s Ambassador to the Organization of American States and the government’s representative at the hearing, failed to respond to the Nation’s claims.
“Over and over, international human rights watchdogs and civil society groups have condemned Canada for violating our right to defend our territory, our laws, and our way of life. The government should have no trouble speaking to the attacks on our people that they have committed in the light of day.”
“It is disappointing that the state did not prepare a full response to the allegations,” Commissioner Carlos Bernal Pulido told the hearing.
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