Over the weekend, there were solidarity protests across the country in support of Indigenous activists in B.C. who are blockading construction of a $6-billion pipeline. The line, Coastal GasLink, will carry natural gas from fields in the northeastern B.C. to ports on the coast where it will be liquified and loaded onto waiting tankers.
From Vancouver Island to Calgary, Regina to Winnipeg and even Belleville, Ont., demonstrators halted pedestrians on a foot bridge, stopped traffic from entering highways and even caused days of train cancellations on the main VIA and CN line through eastern Ontario.
But the reasoning of the solidarity demonstrators is an intellectual farce.
The company, TC Energy, has signed benefit agreements with all 20 elected First Nations governments along the pipeline’s nearly 700 km route.
Four hereditary chiefs, however, object and protesters have rallied around this quartet.
But it is a rally of convenience. The protesters support the hereditary chiefs not because of some profound respect for Indigenous rights, but because the chiefs fit their cause.
The protesters aim is to stop any and all new pipelines.
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See Also:
(1) A protest is a constitutionally protected right. A railway blockade isn’t
(3) A timeline on rail disruptions by anti-pipeline protesters across Canada
(5) Manitoba won’t shut door on oil pipeline to Churchill: premier
ALDRICH: Feds leaving provinces to do their dirty work
Half the country’s rail service has been shut down by illegal blockages and the federal government is almost nowhere to be seen.
Courts in Canada help people resolve disputes fairly – whether they are between individuals, or between individuals and the state. At the same time, courts interpret and pronounce law, set standards, and decide questions that affect all aspects of Canadian society.
The damage these radicals are intentionally and proudly causing to our wonderful country is war without the usual uniformed soldiers, bombs and guns. But war it is. When it comes to these blockades the courts have fulfilled their role. Now it is time for the police to fulfill their role. Once the courts got involved in this illegality it is no longer in some gutless politicians hands to do something about it. A court order is a court order. Th judges who issue these injunction or orders, upon observing the police refuse to act upon them, should be very angry. These judges could and should order the CO’s of the various police departments responsible, i.e. CO of ‘E’ Division (RCMP) or in Ontario the OPP) to appear before them. These judges could and should threaten to hold the police in contempt for not enforcing the courts orders. Simple. Period. The Canadian public would massively support such judicial action. The police won’t read these illegal protestors the riot act so the judges need to read the police the riot act. Continued contempt of court will be ‘rewarded’ with (I’d start off easy) a daily $1,00,000 fine to the individual police force/departments involved each and every day they refuse to obey the court order. Oh my gosh, this has never been done before. So what? Extraordinary events causing such enormous national damage demand extraordinary resolutions,
I for one am completely fed up with the politicians and the police wringing their hands fearful of a fringe radical minority and ignoring the well being of our nation.
https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/aldrich-feds-leaving-provinces-to-do-their-dirty-work
As it pertains to B.C. the incredibly stupid NDP government enacted a law adopting the so called UN Declaration Of The Rights Of Indigenous People. Despite Judy Raybould Wilson’s warning not to do it. A warning from an indigenous person no less! I wonder if John Horgan today regrets not listening to her? Somehow I doubt it. Something about you can’t fix stupid I figure. And the protestors, they say reconciliation is dead. Well, guess who killed? On purpose I say. Hogan needs to immediately take steps to revoke the law his government enacted re adopting UNDRIP. Ha, when pigs fly.
Elections have consequences? Imagine that…
Shutdown of CN Rail lines leads to propane shortages in the Maritimes
So what is the moral of the 2020 version of the story “The Ant and the Grasshopper”? Well, just ask a generational hand out addicted liberal (or sometimes NDP – it ALL depends on the party offering the biggest handouts) Maritime voter. They’re living ‘the dream’ right now. Enjoy…
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/shutdown-of-cn-rail-lines-leads-to-propane-shortages-in-the-maritimes-1.4812366