I get that. I guess the issue is that with the Wet'suwet'en, we saw a repeat of what happened in New Brunswick. Again the RCMP was heavily militarized with sniper rifles. They were targeting unarmed protesters, and the reports that we saw from the duty commanders talked about the need for “lethal overwatch”.
We're having a discussion about demilitarizing and de-escalating when people are being confronted with sniper rifles, exactly the same pattern that we saw in New Brunswick, and the New Brunswick report is still not out, and there's been nothing done on the Wet'suwet'en, so how do I go back to indigenous communities and say, “No, this is not an occupying force that's going to threaten you if you stand up for your land”?
Sniper rifles and lethal overwatch— do those not represent something that is much more militarized than necessary in dealing with a nation-to-nation relationship?