Green Party leader, NDP MP arrested at anti-pipeline protest in B.C.
BURNABY, B.C. — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and a New Democrat MP were arrested Friday at a protest against Kinder Morgan’s expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline as demonstrations spread across the country.
May and New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart were processed by RCMP officers inside a tent at the Trans Mountain pipeline terminal in Burnaby, B.C.
The two MPs acknowledged they risked arrest after the B.C. Supreme Court placed limits on where demonstrators could protest in an injunction issued last week.
As she was led away by police, May said the permits issued for the project to proceed did not respect the rights of Indigenous people on their territory.