The bad news for the innocent citizens of Ottawa is that on Tuesday they will be entering their 12th day of having their lives disrupted because of a political protest in which they play no part and cannot solve.
The good news is their plight, set off by the Freedom Convoy protest against federal and provincial vaccine mandates and lockdowns, is unlikely to last as long as the one the innocent citizens of Caledonia, Ont., have endured for 16 years.
Feb. 28 will mark the 16th anniversary of the people living in this small, southwestern Ontario town on the banks of the Grand River being held hostage over a long-standing Indigenous land claims dispute that erupted on that day in 2006, when protesters from the Six Nations reserve occupied a local housing project called the Douglas Creek Estates.
That began one of the longest and most bitter land claim fights in modern Canadian history, which continues to erupt periodically to this day.
The definitive account of what happened to Caledonia was written in 2010 by the late, great Christie Blatchford, who titled her book, Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us.
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