Indigenous Rights: uOttawa students want RBC to remove on campus branch – CTV News
March 7, 2024
Students from the University of Ottawa joined 13 other universities across Canada to protest at RBC’s presence on campus, calling on the bank to stop funding fossil fuel projects, that they say, “violate Indigenous rights.”
While the students stage a sit-in in the RBC OnCampus branch at uOttawa, they want the bank to divest from fossil fuels, respect Indigenous rights and stop funding weapons used by the Israeli army, said Climate Justice Climatique (CJC) University of Ottawa in a news release on Wednesday.
“RBC has spent more than $270 billion financing fossil fuels since 2016, including funding the Coastal Gaslink pipeline which violates the sovereignty of the unceded territory of the Wet’suwet’en nation. RBC is also invested in Palantir, an Israeli surveillance company used in the West Bank,” read the release.
