Chief Andrea Paul recently posted on social media images of a letter sent to her office on July 10 that includes a drawing of an Indigenous person and a Black person hanging from a tree
Chief Andrea Paul, of the Pictou Landing First Nation, attends a meeting of stakeholders as they respond to Northern Pulp’s Focus Report on Nov. 19, 2019.The RCMP are investigating a racist letter sent last week to the leader of a First Nation who successfully battled for the end to decades of pulp effluent being poured into a lagoon near her Nova Scotia community.
Late last year, after the province rejected an environmental plan for an alternate pipeline, Northern Pulp announced it was mothballing the plant and it has been closed since the end of January.Paul has said that after the decision and ensuing layoffs in the forestry sector, racial comments and threats have increased.
Clarke also noted that police had earlier been contacted by the chief regarding a New Year’s Eve incident. “We identified and interviewed potential suspects, worked with Chief Paul to help assess the risk to her and her family, and ensured that her family, who resided in a different part of the province, was contacted and monitored by the local detachment.”Clarke said a member of the local RCMP spoke to Paul in January about the investigation and how to reduce the risk to her safety.
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