The Ontario Provincial Police is preparing to end a presentation by Mohawks of Tyendinaga that has led to the shut down of CN rail tracks through among Canada’s busiest rail passages.
The presentation began in action to RCMP implementing a court injunction in B.C. on Wet’suwet’en camps constructed to obstruct access to employees building the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
2 OPP liaison officers provided the message to the Mohawk demonstrators at about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday. The liaisons stated the scenario was now “dire,” that the OPP was examining the presentation as an illegal protest and that authorities would enforce a court injunction prohibiting continued interference with train operations.
The demonstrators who fulfilled the intermediaries said they would take the message back to the remainder of the people.
Via Rail stated it’s needed to cancel 157 scheduled journeys on the Toronto to Montreal passage since 8 a.m. Tuesday, requiring at least 24,500 guests to change their travel plans.
CN stated the rail shut down is impacting deliveries ranging from lp to feedstock for factories. The rail business stated the demonstration has interrupted the only rail link in between eastern and western Canada and the U.S. Midwest.
The Mohawk demonstrators have not put any obstructions on the railway tracks, however are established near the rails, about 240 km west of Ottawa. The tracks run simply outside the reserve border of Tyendinaga, but are within its claimed territory.
The Mohawks have said they would not leave their position next to the tracks till the RCMP have actually left Wet’suwet’en territory. The RCMP has concluded their operations to dismantle the camps, but remain to ensure compliance with the injunction.
This was the 2nd time Tuesday police liaison officers went to the demonstrators.
Meeting at the tracks
Previously in the day, 3 OPP intermediaries, using civilian clothing, stood across a fold-up table set up on the rail tracks by the demonstrators. The unscripted meeting followed a look by an Ontario Superior Court enforcement officer who was escorted by the OPP to read out the court injunction.
“You can’t come here on our land and evict us off our land. You do not have the authority to do that,” said Kanenhariyo, whose English name is Seth LeFort.
In Tyendinaga, the camp has grown over the previous two days, with two brand-new canvas tents pitched Monday night and a consistent circulation through of community members coming by to reveal support or drop off products.
Kanenhariyo, who stated he was not a spokesperson or a leader, just a community member, informed the 3 OPP intermediary officers that the decision to escort the court officer to read out the injunction and after that attach it to among the rail level crossings simply irritated the situation.
On the table was a two-row wampum belt that symbolizes the initial arrangement, dating back to the 17th century, between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch colonists. The two-row wampum represents a river and the parallel lines represent the paths of each party’s vessel. It emphasizes a mutual engagement to coexist in peace without disturbance in the affairs of the other.
Kanenhariyo stated the resolution to the ongoing circumstance would need talks in the spirit of the original contract.
“There’s contracts, and there is a procedure and procedure,” he said.
OPP Sgt. Diana Hampson, the lead intermediary officer, said the Mohawks had made their point which they were heard.
“I know I would actually like to go home and I wonder if you people would possibly like to go home too, to your families,” stated Hampson.
“We are home,” said one woman, standing beside Kanenhariyo.
“We are on our front yard.”
The OPP liaison team likewise brought a present of maple syrup.
“I don’t understand that we are in a location to have presents at the moment,” said Kanenhariyo.
“You did type of come here to threaten us.”
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