Susan, a supporter of Wet’suwet’en land defenders and mother to one of the young occupiers, said “this is a time that we are, as a country, trying to achieve reconciliation based on the atrocious history and present treatment of the first peoples of this nation. And I know that there are lots of arguments for and against pipelines and so that issue aside, with the building of the pipeline, with the bulldozing, of a territory with the RCMP masking themselves to do so, is outrageous and just not the country I want. So that’s why I support what they’re doing.”

Bardish Chagger is also Trudeau’s Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth, yet she feigned ignorance at the occupiers’ demands for her support. This is not surprising: the entire history of the Trudeau government’s attempt at reconciliation is filled with lies, insults, and crocodile tears. Morgan, a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo organization Our Time says “[Wet’suwet’en people] are being violently invaded by a police force that we know from investigative journalism that broke this a couple months ago that they have been authorized to use lethal force, “lethal overwatch” they call it, and that’s really scary.

They’re occupying the office because Canada, the RCMP, are occupying Wet’suwet’en lands. Obviously it’s not the same thing, but I think it’s helpful symbolically to highlight what is going on.”

Across the country supporters of the Wet’suwet’en people have protested the RCMP invasion and police everywhere have cracked down, arresting dozens. A similar result seems imminent for the six occupiers in Chagger’s office. While the government is very unlikely to be shamed by their actions, no matter what the UN preaches, it may prove possible for protesters to make this an unprofitable venture through their actions in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders.