Public Safety Minister says RCMP will move off Wet’suwet’en territory in B.C.

The RCMP in British Columbia has met conditions set by traditional leaders of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation opposing a pipeline project on their territory.

The nation’s hereditary chiefs oppose the Coastal GasLink project that would bring natural gas to a liquefaction facility and export terminal on the B.C. coast.

Demonstrations and blockades have been set up by Indigenous protestors in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation hereditary chiefs.

According to The Canadian Press, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says he believes barricades set up in solidarity with that nation should come down.

The hereditary chiefs had demanded the RCMP leave their traditional land.

Conservatives have been calling for the government to use force, while the Liberal government says negotiations are the only way to a lasting solution.