Canada’s multi-billion LNG Canada project is facing fresh trouble, as work on a key artery linking the export facility near Kitimat, B.C. to natural gas resources in Dawson Creek area is being halted by First Nations groups.
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, representing all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, said over the weekend that they issued an eviction notice to the Coastal GasLink pipeline company, which is building the $6.6 billion project.
LNG Canada, which is also under construction, is said to be the largest private sector investment in Canadian history, with a price tag of around $40 billion and is being developed by a Royal Dutch Shell-led consortium. The project will export Canadian natural gas to Asian markets.
The First Nations’ move comes after the B.C. Supreme Court sided with the company and granted access to areas covered by the injunction at the end of December. The decision did not spell out what the RCMP can do to enforce the injunction but police have been heavily scrutinized over the past year for enforcing a previous injunction granted by Justice Church against Coastal GasLink protestors.
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Canadian police threaten a journalist that if he called assassinated Iranian General Qasem Soleimani a terrorist, he would be arrested
So referring to somebody designated by the Canadian government to be a terrorist, a terrorist is a Breach of the Peace? Who knew? So a Canadian citizen, in Canada, exercising his rights as a citizen under our Charter of Rights, but at the same time upsetting Muslims is threatened with arrest for a Breach of the Peace ? WTF is going on here? Aren’t those who are interfering with this reporter’s rights the ones breaching the peace? This (benefit of the doubt maybe just poorly trained) Toronto Police officer was duty bound to explain this to the agitated protestors. He was duty bound to explain to them that they have two choices. If they don’t like it walk away or it would be they who would be arrested for Breach of the Peace. If it looks like it might get out of hand, then call for backup instead of backing down. And he had plenty of backup, all he would ever need, at his fingertips. It is not the police’s function to appease one side or the other. It is to enforce the law equally. Period.
Makes a fella wonder. Do the Toronto Police Service have a separate (perhaps unwritten) Operations Manual for temporarily suspending the Charter when dealing with (on an escalating scale) prone to complain, prone to demand, prone to violence Muslim protestors then perhaps they do for the rest of the population? The MSM should be the most enquiring minds of all. But they’re not.
A canary in the coal mine.
By the way, just so everybody knows the last time I looked Breach of the Peace is not a chargeable offence. In other words there is no penalty because it is not an offence per se. It is just an excuse under valid circumstances not just to make the police’s job easier, to arrest and detain and remove. Read it below for yourself. You can see that it is wide open to abuse by a potentially poorly trained or just unscrupulous police officer. Thus it is wide open to abuse. This reporter was not ‘committing’ a Breach of the Peace by any stretch of the imagination. But every agitated protestor in this case did meet the criteria.
Arrest for breach of peace
31 (1) Every peace officer who witnesses a breach of the peace and every one who lawfully assists the peace officer is justified in arresting any person whom he finds committing the breach of the peace or who, on reasonable grounds, he believes is about to join in or renew the breach of the peace.
(2) Every peace officer is justified in receiving into custody any person who is given into his charge as having been a party to a breach of the peace by one who has, or who on reasonable grounds the peace officer believes has, witnessed the breach of the peace.
R.S., c. C-34, s. 31.