As protests on Burnaby Mountain continue for a fourth day, an 11-year-old girl was willing to risk arrest to challenge surveying work conducted by Kinder Morgan.
Kate Fink-Jensen, 11, and mother Kim were among a group of protesters who volunteered to cross police lines Sunday morning.
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“I don’t like what’s being done here,” Kate told Global BC. “They don’t have the right. This is park land. They shouldn’t even be up here right now.”
Kim and a friend, also 11, crossed police lines Sunday afternoon, but police say neither were arrested nor apprehended. Police say Kim was escorted down the mountain and reunited with a family member.
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