Green Party of Canada former deputy leader Angela Davidson, also known as “Rainbow Eyez,” was convicted of seven counts of criminal contempt of court on Jan. 18 for her participation in an anti-logging blockade near Fairy Creek on West Vancouver Island in 2021 and 2022.
In his judgment, Chief Justice Hinkson wrote that “Ms. Davidson’s conduct was defiant, repeated and public, and certainly not minimal.”
Davidson, who was also the Green Party’s Indigenous affairs critic, is a Kwakwaka’wakw person and a member of the Da’naxda’xw First Nation. She argued that her actions were supported by position as a Kwakwaka’wakw land guardian.
In his judgment, Chief Justice Hinkson wrote that “I find that Ms. Davidson’s role as a Land Guardian did not entitle her, let alone require her to enter the territory of another First Nation to impose her priorities in such territories.”
A Gladue report is now being prepared for sentencing this spring.
Correction: A previous version of this article stated that Davidson was the Green Party’s deputy leader, she is the party’s former deputy leader. CHLY regrets the error.
