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On Wednesday, the B.C RCMP sent a letter to the hereditary chiefs, agreeing to discuss the potential relocation from their temporary detachment along a forest service road used to access construction of the $6.6-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline, to the town of Houston, B.C.

Staff Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says the letter states that if there is continued commitment to keep the road open, the need for the police presence is “diminished or decreased.”

It feels a lot like a media strategy

But, Smogelgem, hereditary chief of the Fireweed clan, tweeted that “(The RCMP’s) harassment of our people and supporters continues. Now they’ll simply base their Mounties out of the local town of Houston,” Smogelgem wrote. “They are trying to instruct us to continue letting CGL do their work and ignore the eviction that we served them with. OUR EVICTION STANDS!”

Meanwhile, the Mohawk Nation announced it will meet with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who had travelled from British Columbia in a “people’s council” on Friday. They will meet on Mohawk territory, near Belleville, Ont., where a solidarity protest along the Canadian National Railway line has brought train traffic to a standstill across eastern Canada.

The Mohawk Nation said there will be a tobacco burning at daybreak; police and media are not welcome.

The Wet’suwet’en chiefs won’t meet with cabinet ministers in Ottawa while in eastern Ontario, said one of the hereditary chiefs

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said on Parliament Hill today that they’re eager to meet the Wet’suwet’en chiefs.

But that won’t be possible with three senior chiefs remaining in northern British Columbia, because the group must make decisions as a unit.

— With files from The Canadian Press

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