{"id":58066,"date":"2023-04-05T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=58066"},"modified":"2023-04-05T12:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T16:34:30","slug":"happening-now-rbc-refuses-to-let-indigenous-delegates-including-wetsuweten-hereditary-leadership-gulf-south-representatives-into-agm-in-saskatoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/58066\/happening-now-rbc-refuses-to-let-indigenous-delegates-including-wetsuweten-hereditary-leadership-gulf-south-representatives-into-agm-in-saskatoon\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPENING NOW: RBC refuses to let Indigenous delegates, including Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary leadership, Gulf South representatives into AGM in Saskatoon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A HYBRID PRESS CONFERENCE IS SCHEDULED FOR 1:30pm LOCAL \/ 3:30 ET \u2013\u00a0RSVP TO ATTEND<\/a><\/h2>\n\n

VIDEO\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0AND\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

LIVESTREAM HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

RBC\u2019s attempt to divide and threaten with arrest and physical violence the Indigenous delegation \u2013 who all have received necessary proxies \u2013 and\u00a0shut out Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary leadership is further confirmation of the bank\u2019s commitment to corporate colonialism<\/a>. RBC is the primary financier of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which lacks consent from Hereditary Chiefs, the rightful titleholders of the land.<\/p>\n\n

RBC has opted to apply a reserve system to its AGM, forcing Indigenous delegates into a second class room, with a colour coded pass.<\/p>\n\n

Attempts by shareholders to hold RBC accountable and to seek change has resulted in the\u00a0bank recommending the rejection of shareholder proposals around climate targets and Indigenous sovereignty<\/a>\u00a0as outlined below:<\/p>\n\n

The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, with the B.C. General Employees\u2019 Union (BCGEU)<\/strong> brought forward a shareholder resolution<\/a> to push RBC to operationalize free, prior and informed consent into its corporate policies and activities. While BMO and TD have expressed meaningful willingness to improve its policies, RBC has flat out opted to recommend the rejection of the proposal.<\/p>\n\n

Stand.earth<\/strong> filed a resolution for RBC<\/a> to end financing for fossil fuel expansion.<\/p>\n\n

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander<\/strong> and three of the New York City Retirement Systems (the New York City Employees\u2019 Retirement System, Teachers\u2019 Retirement System, and Board of Education Retirement System) have brought forward a shareholder resolution asking RBC to set absolute greenhouse gas reduction targets. To date, the bank has only set targets for reducing the amount of greenhouse gases per dollar invested, which allows the growth of its financed emissions.<\/p>\n\n

This irresponsible and disrespectful move by RBC comes days after traditional owners of the Tiwi Islands in so-called Australia lodged\u00a0human rights complaints<\/a>\u00a0against 12 banks \u2013 including RBC \u2013 for involvement in a $4.7 billion gas project. Last week,\u00a0a large force of RCMP C-IRG raided a Gidimt\u2019en village site<\/a>, and arrested five land and water defenders, mostly Indigenous women on behalf of the RBC-financed CGL pipeline.<\/p>\n\n

All of this highlights that RBC has no interest in reconciliation or the rights of Indigenous peoples. They are more focused on their bottom line at the expense of human rights.<\/p>\n\n

RBC is currently under investigation by the\u00a0Competition Bureau of Canada<\/a>\u00a0for allegedly misleading consumers with climate-related advertising while continuing to increase financing for coal, oil and gas.<\/p>\n\n

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INTERVIEWS ARE AVAILABLE WITH INDIGENOUS DELEGATES IMPACTED.<\/h2>\n\n

For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Kari Vierimaa, KPW Communications, <\/p>\n\n

kari@kpwcomms.com<\/a>; 416-578-0488<\/p>\n\n

Laura Bergamo, Communications officer, Greenpeace Canada<\/p>\n\n

lbergamo@greenpeace.org<\/a>; 438-928-5237<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RBC\u2019s attempt to divide and threaten with arrest and physical violence the Indigenous delegation \u2013 who all have received necessary proxies \u2013 and shut out Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary leadership is further confirmation of the bank\u2019s commitment to corporate colonialism. RBC is the primary financier of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which lacks consent from Hereditary Chiefs, the rightful titleholders of the land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":52073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"HAPPENING NOW: RBC refuses to let Indigenous delegates, including Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary leadership, Gulf South representatives into AGM in Saskatoon","p4_og_description":"RBC\u2019s attempt to divide and threaten with arrest and physical violence the Indigenous delegation \u2013 who all have received necessary proxies \u2013 and\u00a0shut out Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en Hereditary leadership is further confirmation of the bank\u2019s commitment to corporate colonialism. RBC is the primary financier of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which lacks consent from Hereditary Chiefs, the rightful titleholders of the land.","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[125,3,5],"tags":[23,29,32],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-58066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equality","category-nature","category-our-work","tag-climate","tag-indigenous","tag-oil","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58073,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58066\/revisions\/58073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58066"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=58066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}