Editing Royal Canadian Mounted Police (section)

====Role in land disputes====
[[File:RCMP ERT member points suppressed rifle at unarmed Wet'suwet'en protester..png|thumb|[[Emergency Response Team (RCMP)]] member points suppressed rifle at unarmed Wet'suwet'en protester in November 2019.]]
In 1995, the RCMP intervened in the [[Gustafsen Lake standoff]] between the armed Ts'peten Defenders, occupying what they claimed was unceded Indigenous land, and armed ranchers, who owned the land and had previously allowed Indigenous people to use part of it on the condition they not erect permanent structures. The RCMP's response included 400 tactical assault team members, five helicopters, two surveillance planes, and nine [[Bison and Coyote armoured vehicles|Bison]] [[armoured personnel carrier]]s on loan from the [[Canadian Army]]<ref name="Bison APC" >{{cite web|url=https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/tspeten-1995/ |title=Bison APC at Ts'Peten, 1995 |website=warriorpublications.wordpress.com |date=February 13, 2011 |access-date=2022-06-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823165212/https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/tspeten-1995/|archive-date=2021-08-23|url-status=live}}</ref> and sparked international controversy over the RCMP's use of unusually broad press exclusion zones.<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=William |title=RCMP Should Avoid Waco-Style Shootout In B.C. |work=[[Montreal Gazette]] |date=August 29, 1995 |url=http://www.nationnewsarchives.ca/article/rcmp-should-avoid-waco-style-shootout-in-b-c/ |quote="Perhaps it's the old newsman in me, but I'm uneasy about the reporting. Journalists have been kept away from the scene by the RCMP & the native occupiers could not tell their side of the story because Mounties have cut off their means of communication".}}</ref> One of the members of the Ts'peten Defenders was later granted political asylum in the United States after an Oregon judge found that the RCMP's reporting of the incident—marked by an RCMP member's off-hand comment to media that "smear campaigns are [the RCMP's] specialty"—amounted to a "disinformation campaign."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.straight.com/news/rcmp-history-of-smear-campaigns-warrants-skepticism-about-violent-confrontation-with-coastal|title=RCMP history of smear campaigns warrants skepticism about "violent confrontation" with Coastal GasLink workers|website=The Georgia Straight|date=17 February 2022 |access-date=July 7, 2022}}</ref><ref name=Globe>{{cite news |last1=Makin |first1=Kirk |title=U.S. judge won't extradite native activist |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/us-judge-wont-extradite-fugitive-native-activist/article22500327/ |access-date=1 December 2020 |work=The Globe and Mail |date=23 November 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201030620/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/us-judge-wont-extradite-fugitive-native-activist/article22500327/ |archive-date=1 December 2020 }}</ref>
[[File:Wet’suwet’en solidarity banner on oil tank car February 15, 2020 02.jpg|thumb|A [[Haudenosaunee]] flag and a banner that reads ''RCMP off Wetsuweten land'' on a petroleum gas tank car during a solidarity protest against the [[Coastal GasLink Pipeline]] in [[Vaughan]], 2020.]]

Between January 2019 and March 2020, the RCMP spent $13 million policing and periodically enforcing [[injunction]]s against Indigenous [[Coastal GasLink Pipeline#Protests|protesters blocking the construction of a pipeline]] across what the protesters asserted was unceded Wet'suwet'en territory.<ref name=CBCWt /> Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs Na'moks and Woos complained about the armed RCMP presence, as the police moved down the road, kilometre-by-kilometre, over days, dismantling fortified checkpoints and making arrests.<ref name=CBCWt>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-wetsuweten-pipeline-policing-costs-1.5769555|title=RCMP spent more than $13M on policing Coastal GasLink conflict on Wet'suwet'en territory|website=CBC News|access-date=August 12, 2022}}</ref> The RCMP's enforcement of a court injunction against the occupiers in 2020 sparked [[2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests|international controversy and protests]]. As of 2022, sporadic occupations and protests have continued at the site.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}} There have also been attacks on infrastructure and work camps, allegedly by outside groups unaffiliated with Wet'suwet'en and other local people.<ref>{{cite news|title=Masked group attacks gas pipeline work camp|journal=[[The Globe and Mail]]|author=Nancy MacDonald and Brent Jang|page=A9|date=February 19, 2022}}</ref>