Proposed suit filed by two people who attempted to document the protests, who allege RCMP enforcement of the injunction violated the charter rights of members of the public, media and protesters
A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed by two people who attempted to document the protests against the logging of old growth forests at Fairy Creek near Port Renfrew in 2021.
The RCMP made 1,100 arrests from May 2021 to February 2022 after logging company Teal Jones obtained an injunction against protesters trying to block roads and prevent the cutting of old-growth trees at Fairy Creek. Only 425 of the arrests were prosecuted, primarily for criminal contempt charges. RCMP officers detained and arrested people without due process and assaulted, pushed, dragged and pepper-sprayed protesters, sometimes removing their COVID masks to do so, says the claim.
RCMP officers also used their powers of arrest as a form of crowd control, not because they believed someone was committing a crime or in breach of the injunction, said Wu. “We say those policies resulted in many people’s rights being infringed.”
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