is now concluded."

At the same time, emails show that senior RCMP officers continued to discuss and meet on moving on some of Sitka's recommendations. This led to the decision to issue a division-wide request for information to update the Sitka list of flagged activists.

The wording of the request, which was sent out by Stubbs, was drafted with input from Supt. Marie-Claude Arsenault with the National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, according to an email thread that ran between Nov. 21-22, 2016.

"We must have a clear message that the focus is on Aboriginal protests (not Aboriginal protesters) as per Sitka's objectives," wrote Arsenault on Nov. 21.

Project Sitka was led by the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Centre with support from what was then known as Community and Aboriginal Policing in 2014. The focusfor the intelligence centre that fiscal year was "Aboriginal public order events," according to a briefing note contained in the documents.

Many activists from B.C.

The previous year had seen the Idle No More Indigenous rights movement sweep the country followed by anti-shale gas protests in New Brunswick around the Mi'kmaq First Nation of Elsipogtog, which saw several RCMP vehicles set on fire during one clash.

The RCMP had no centralized process for dealing with Indigenous rights protests at the time after disbanding the Aboriginal Joint Intelligence Group in 2010, according to the briefing note.

RCMP enforce an injunction in Wet'suwet'en territory in January 2019. (Chantelle Bellrichard/CBC)

Of the 89 individuals identified in the Sitka report, 16 came from British Columbia and several on the list were also connected to a camp set