Fantino an equal opportunity abuser

July 19, 2008

Now that documents have been released detailing the testimony of Julian Fantino at an August 29 2007 court hearing for Shawn Brant, and transcripts of recorded phone calls between Fantino and Brant from the June 29, 2007 “day of action”, we are able to gain a rare glimpse into the mind of Ontario’s “top cop”.

We know that Julian is a bully when there’s a camera or microphone around to show off for, and we know that when dealing with anything remotely associated with CANACE, he is prone to making bizarre statements about violence and agenda’s that exist only in his head, but what’s he like when he’s dealing with a Native and thinks nobody is listening?

Activist granted bail; Shawn Brant led Aboriginal protests

Mohawk activist Shawn Brant was ordered to stand trial on nine criminal charges before walking out of a Dundas Street West courthouse and into the arms of friends and loved ones yesterday.Brant, who has spent the last two months in custody, was released on strict bail conditions including not to participate in any demonstrations or protests and not to leave his house for the next 30 days without police permission.

Brant was also ordered to stay away from the Deseronto Road quarry currently occupied by fellow protesters and to report daily to his mother, Deanna Brant, and family friend Winston Maracle, both of whom put up $50,000 each to the court in collateral to secure his release.

In contrast to his earlier bail reviews, yesterday’s had a publication ban on any evidence presented.

“I have a fair bit of respect for you now,” the judge said. “I have absolutely no respect for your methods. I hate your methods.”

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Damage to 401 during protest could cost thousands

The Belleville Intelligencer

Officials for the Ministry of Transportation report they have no estimates on the cost to fix damage done to Highway 401 during the recent national aboriginal day of action.But a local expert said repairing road damages can cost thousands.

The June 29 protest, which saw police close a portion of the major highway from Belleville to Deseronto, caused minor damage to the road, most of which has been fixed, said spokeswoman Emna Dhahak.

Sections of a fence were knocked down or removed from three quadrants of an interchange, and two southbound guard rail posts were burned or damaged, she said.

There was a small area of burned asphalt on the paved shoulder and ash debris that was full of nails, she said.

There was also one crushed culvert end and two symbols painted on the structure piers, driving surface and barrier wall, she said.

The day of protest is not the only cause of local spray paint related to Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.“No OPP” can be found along Highway 49.

(EDIT: And who will be held responsible and have to pay for the damage to our Nations largest highway? The Terrorists who did this, or the taxpayers? Gee I wonder)

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Natives win more through negotiations

Waterloo Record

Blocking railway tracks gets aboriginal protesters noticed. Talking quietly at a table gets aboriginal negotiators results. You decide which strategy makes the most sense today.

The latest victory for one of Canada’s First Nations came Monday when leaders of northern Quebec’s 16,500 Cree announced a $1.4 billion deal with Ottawa that will eventually give this aboriginal community a form of self-government. The deal was a long time coming — 32 years to be exact. But the important thing now is that it came. As for the Cree, they deserve praise for patience, perseverance and relying on negotiations instead of resorting to illegal protests or even violence, as have some native groups.

At the end of June, Mohawk protesters were responsible for closing a main rail line and Highway 401 in eastern Ontario.

Their confrontational tactics — which included the threat that they were armed with rifles and would use them in self-defence — got international attention. However, aside from landing a native leader in jail and creating a lot of ill-will in the general public, the confrontations gained the natives nothing.  (EDIT: Nothing? Race based immunity to any crime they wish to commit is far from nothing)

Likewise, the occupation of a subdivision in Caledonia has not delivered to a group of Six Nations protesters the land that they wanted, even though it has dragged on for nearly 1 1/2 years and been marred by physical assaults, vandalism and a tension between the local aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities that has not abated.

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Canada At The Crossroads - A Year in Review & Your help is needed

 Originally published by Gary McHale - http://www.caledoniawakeupcall.com/

If you have not yet read this and acted on it, you should take the time now. YOUR future is at stake.

Canada at the CrossRoads

Your Help is needed

For the past year the OPP & various politicians have tried to make it sound as if only Caledonia is affected by violent Native Protesters. However, over the past 2 months we have seen that these issues affect all of us.

Your Land Deed is Worthless in Ontario:

The fact is that in Ontario your deed that states you own your land and home is worthless as a direct result of the failures of the McGuinty Government and the lack of policing by the OPP. In the latest Legal Magazine titled ‘Law Times’ they ran an editorial questioning who is ‘ Protecting Private Property’. [Link] The Ontario Home Builder’s Association ran a story a few months ago titled “HELD HOSTAGE” [Link] in which they stated that builders had done everything right to get clear title to land before developing but in the end it was worthless.

Nation wide Protests:

The National Day of Action that was set for June 29^th demonstrated that all of Canada is faced with the issue of a Few Natives who choose to use illegal activities to force Governments into political action - the very definition of Terrorism as stated in the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act. [Link]

We saw a YouTube training video to sabotage CN rail in support of Native Land Claims. We saw Shawn Brant from Deseronto deliver a speech in Toronto that demonstrated that he has been working for 10 years encouraging Natives to pick up guns and to attack the infrastructure across Canada - a clear terrorist threat. [Video] [Dialup]

We saw National Native Leaders both support the use of illegal activities on June 29^th but also make racist statements against Canadians. These Native Leaders only changed their tone after the Federal & Provincial Governments both suddenly came up with $2.5 billion each ($5 billion total). Mike Duffy asked whether such deals was paying ‘Blackmail’.

We have demonstrated what Peaceful Protest is:

We have had several Town Hall Meetings throughout Ontario and several Marches/Rallies in Caledonia. In each case there have been no crimes committed and we have continuously told people that we want no racial slurs, no swearing, no violence and no criminal behavior.

Our web site is a perfect example of peaceful protest in a democratic society. We protest against Two Tier Justice and against the spineless leadership of politicians.

We have NEVER been charged with any crime. We have NEVER been asked by any police force to remove anything from our site.

Informing Canadians is our GOAL and letting Canadians respond by voting for change in both the coming Provincial and Federal elections. We continue to have a National Voice - both through our web site but also through interviews done weekly throughout Canada.

Our web site has, in one year, had 560,000 visits with approx. 22,000 unique homes/business viewing our site monthly. A total 3,700,000 web stories, including video & audio files, have been viewed in the past year.

Targeted by OPP and McGuinty Government:

We have done such a great job at exposing the OPP & the McGuinty Government that they came out in attack mode against us and anyone who supported us.

- We are the only Blog to have had a Press Release issued against us [Link]

- Ontario Government threatened CHTV for having us on TV [Link]

- The OPP have done numerous Press Releases against us

- Fantino spent 4 months on TV, radio and in newspapers attacking us

- Governments are the number one viewer of our site [Link, Link]

Media is finally seeing how serous this has become:

$oldiers of Fortune - The Western Standard [Link]

For natives, a legal free-for-all - The National Post [Link]

Native violence becomes blameless - The National Post [Link]

Turning guilt into billions of dollars - Ottawa Citizen [Link]

Uphold Canada’s laws - Kitchener Record [Link]

Six Nations Should End Protest and Pay Costs - Canadian Taxpayers Federation [Link]

We aren’t all free - The Regional News [Link]

We have national media now questioning both the McGuinty & Harper Governments as to their handling of Native protesters. We have Mike Duffy of CTV using phrases like blackmail and terrorism. We also had Steve Paikin on TVO’s The Agenda openly questioning Mohawk protesters in Deseronto whether their actions were terrorism. [Link]

Media Relations

• - One of the main viewers of our web site are media people from across Canada
• - We are contacted weekly to help provide information for stories they run
• - Read the story above by the Western Standard as an example of how we provide information to media. (see other examples: Link )
• - We work with Native Media to try to get the message out. Recently we spoke on Native radio in New Mexico which was carried throughout North America [Link]

Exposing the OPP & Government:

• - We had the media room at Queen’s Park twice
• o 1) Exposed the Ipperwash Inquiry as biased toward Violent Native Protesters
• § Created http://www.ipperwashpapers.com/

• o 2) Exposed FantinoGate - Fantino’s threatening email to Haldimand Council [Link]
• o Media has carried both of these stories.

• - Filed many Police Service Complaints against Fantino & OPP officers
• - Ontario Ombudsmen rebuked Government for handling of these investigations [Story in Toronto Star - [Link]
• - We exposed the McGuinty Liberal Plan a year ago where the Government was going to secretly give in the violent protesters in Caledonia [Link, Link, Link]

Exposing the Dangers and informing the Public:

• - We were the first to expose the CN sabotage training video which was then covered by national media
• - We exposed the fact that the AK47 shooting in Caledonia started on the occupied DCE area
• - We provided the video on Shawn Brant which shows a real Terrorist Threat to Canada

[Video] [Dialup]

Canada at the CrossRoads

Your Help is Needed

Canadians falsely believe that big brother (the Government) will also solve problems for them. The residents of Ipperwash still do not have any solution after 15 years - by the way, Oka still has not been resolved after 17 years.

The residents of Caledonia now know that politicians at all levels will do nothing to protect people’s property or their Charter Rights.

Because we are divided, our Government will not listen.

Join us to bring ACCOUNTABILITY to Governments. Join us to restore LAW & ORDER to Canada and to bring about True Equality & Freedoms.

Write your Provincial Member of Parliament and also your Federal Member of Parliament as well.

Write letters to editors of newspapers.

Spread the message to friends & family that Canadians must take a stand for Equality and for Freedoms as promised in our Constitution.

Your Financial Support is Needed

I wish we could get Government funding to carry on our Peaceful Protest but we cannot. The Government spends millions each year funding Native Land Claim offices, Native Land Claim Lawyers, Negotiation teams and the Six Nation Band Council spent $66,000+ to help in the violent take over of DCE in Caledonia.

It has become clear to many media that in Canada people no longer have property rights as soon as any Native group claims your property is theirs. There is no police force, no Government politician who will come to your aid - appeasement and paying Blackmail money is the approach of both the Harper & McGuinty Governments.

We need to keep the battle for Truth and Justice going:

Canada is faced with a choice to make. Will we be ruled by laws based on Equality or will we be ruled by threats of violence and intimidation.

It is a simple choice and one the Politicians have already made - they’ll pay the Blackmail. It is quick and it is not their money so it is easy.

However, these same Politicians who clearly are spineless will also change their views as soon as Canadians wake up to the Truth about the Blackmail, about the Terrorism, about the violence used to force Governments to cave in.

Once Politicians know they will lose votes - they’ll flip flop to appease.

We need Funding to continue to get the message out, to continue to wake people up to what is happening. It truly is a full time Job.

Many Canadians have been victimized:

Do not think there are no victims.

There are the victims of the violence, of the intimidation, of the threats, of the sleepless nights. There are the victims of lost property values (tens of thousands of dollars per property affected), rejected insurance claims, threatened non-renewal of mortgages, loss of thousands of dollars in income. There are thousands of victims that the media fails to show.

HELP us to help them.

What is Freedom & Equality worth to you? Make a sacrifice to help your fellow Canadians. Any amount is helpful but Please Give Generously.

Consider giving monthly:  $10, $25, $50, $100 [Link]

Consider an immediate donation: $25, $50, $100, $500, $1000 [Link]

We offer our heartfelt thanks in advance for your kind donation.

Credit Card or PayPal payments are accepted as are Interac Email Money Transfers, Money Orders, and Personal Cheques

 

Where does the Money Go

Legal Fund:

•1)      Whistle blower protection for any OPP officers who need to have their legal cost covered as a result of telling the public the truth about OPP operations.

- estimate is $40,000

•2)      Help the various legal actions against OPP & the Ontario Government

Quarterly Magazine:

Canada at the CrossRoads Hi-quality Magazine 100 pages - Providing Canadians with a more complete story of what has happened in Caledonia - Photos and Documents that have never been made public will be released. - Available Fall 2007 - Estimated Price: $14,000 per quarter

Political Election Fund: ($100,000 for fall election)

This is not a fund to run in any election, but a fund to make sure we are able to bring the topic of Law & Order and of Equality & Freedom to be election topics this fall.

We need to send a message to Dalton McGuinty (Lib.), John Tory (PC), and Howard Hampton (NDP) that the public will want to know how they will restore Equality and Freedoms in Ontario.

Web site Support:

There are now four people who are working full-time on maintaining the various web sites. Although the cost of the web sites themselves is very small, the time commitment to do the research and post each story is huge. In addition, the time to file complaints and to help the media to stay focused on the true story is very time consuming.

Not everyone can commit full-time to fight for Justice. In any Civil Rights movement all kinds of people are needed. Those who work need to provide for those who commit themselves to the struggle. In the end we all win when Equality and Freedoms are restored in Caledonia, in Ontario and throughout Canada.

Full year support for the 4 people working on the web site is estimated to be $50,000.

Please be advised - projects will not go ahead unless the Canadian Public provides the financial support for the cause. In the 21^st century, money is required to do some of these tasks.

Hundreds of native chiefs and delegates meet in Halifax for annual assembly

HALIFAX (CP) - People have a right to strike, protest, demonstrate and even engage in civil disobedience, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine said as he prepares for the assembly’s annual general meeting in Halifax.

Roughly 500 native chiefs and delegates will meet in Halifax on Tuesday to talk about the national day of action, land claims, language retention and fishing rights at the 28th Annual General Assembly.

At key item on the agenda will be the day of action when natives and non-natives held vigils, protests, (edit: don’t forget blockades) and educational sessions to draw attention to issues plaguing aboriginal communities.

Fontaine said he viewed the day as a success. “I’m an optimist, I always believe we can be pretty convincing and persuasive and the national day of action, in our view, has been a huge success,” he said in an interview.

Read the full story here

Protest leader denied bail - preliminary court date set for August

Protest leader Shawn Brant will be cooling his heels behind bars until his preliminary trial after Justice DK Kirkland turned down defense attorney Peter Rosenthal’s request for bail. In a two-and-a-half hour bail hearing which played out like a miniature version of the trial which is to come, both sides argued their points repeatedly.The drama played out in front of courtroom packed with Brant supporters and reporters. It was ringed with OPP officers as security was extremely tight. Officers with metal detectors swept people entering the court and checked their handbags and camera cases. The courtroom was swept repeatedly before the hearing began.

Crown attorney Robert Morrison said there was no doubt Mr. Brant was the leader of the group responsible for the blockades during the national day of action on June 29. He also said that Brant had a history of such action, pointing to the recent court appearance in May.

Brant’s defense lawyer, the Toronto-based civil rights lawyer Peter Rosenthal, likened Brant to Martin Luther King.

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Native protester Brant denied bail after blockade

NAPANEE, Ont. —  A militant activist who led aboriginal protests that snarled traffic on Canada’s busiest highway and blocked a major rail line was denied bail Thursday after turning himself in to Ontario Provincial Police.

While he sympathized with Shawn Brant’s desire to improve conditions on native reserves and resolve long-standing land-claim disputes, Justice D.K. Kirkland of the Ontario Court of Justice said it would be “dangerous” to allow his release.

“You had no intention of ever complying (with the May 3 bail conditions), did you?” prosecutor Robert Morrison asked the handcuffed and shackled Brant.

“Actually, no,” Brant replied.

Morrison also confronted Brant with his statement to The Canadian Press last week before the militant group set up the blockades for the day of action, suggesting that there would be “longer” and “harder” actions to come in the future.

“Sir, I’d not only say it then, I’d say it now,” Brant said.

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Mohawk militant faces second lawsuit

Canadian National is slapping another lawsuit on Mohawk protester (terrorist) Shawn Brant for blocking its main Toronto-to-Montreal rail line.Brant is being sued again — making two active civil suits from the corporation — in relation to parking an old school bus across its rail line during the June 29 national aboriginal day of action, CN spokesman Mark Hallman confirmed the suit today.

CN is suing for financial damages incurred when rail traffic was cancelled June 29, Hallman said. The amount has not been specified, although CN has said that $103 million worth of freight is carried on the line during an average 24-hour period.

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Indian Summer

An interesting take on the situation Canada is facing at the hands of Native Terrorists by Western Standard touching on such people as Jim Prentice, Phil Fontaine, Terry Nelson,  Angus Toulouse, Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty, John Tory, and even Gary McHale (sort of). 

Also such Terrorists attacks as Oka where Mohawks shot and killed a cop, Ipperwash where they made Dudley George a martyr for being killed during battle with the OPP (yes they said during battle.. kudo’s Western Standard), the pathetic Ipperwhitewash Inquiry,  and Caledonia.

This one is definitely worth a read. Click here or on their interpretive art of how peace for June 29th was negotiated for the full story.

Easy for natives to break the law

Blockade shows double standard

Lorne Gunter, National Post

Published: Saturday, April 21, 2007

If my neighbour and I have a dispute over a piece of land we both claim to own, and he currently lives on the parcel in question, but I drive my truck onto it and stand there with a shotgun refusing to let him or anyone else come on, how long before you think police are going to arrest me?

Now say my neighbour and his family have farmed that land for 100 years — or 200 — and they have the title to it, and all I have is a story my mother used to tell about how my great-great-great- grandfather once roamed this same property, but I get out my Hibachi and my homemade flag for the Republic of Lorne, and pitch my tent across the entrance to settle in for a lengthy camp-out.

Sure, police negotiators are going to try for a few hours to talk me off the land, but the minute I nod off — or threaten violence — a SWAT team is going to swoop in and cart me off.

But everything changes if I’m native. The laws by which all other Canadians must abide and normal police procedures no longer apply. Even if my neighbour wins an injunction ordering me off, police are going to be told to sit by, day after day, month after month, while I grill up burgers and insist my ancestor never meant to give up the property.

One government or another might even step up and buy out my neighbour, just so the politicians can avoid having to tell me I’m wrong. And all because, for politicians, the rule of law is trumped by political correctness and the cult of victimhood.

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We aren’t all free

The Regional

To gain some credibility back, Canada needs to either 1, start upholding the laws of the country or 2, start solving native issues with real, constructive solutions. Preferably both.

Take effect for what you will, but when all was said and done last weekend, two things were evident.

First, natives want Canadians to realize their plight and the only way they feel they can do it is by restricting freedoms. They want Canadians to react to their needs such as poverty, poor drinking water and land claims. And help them. But many aboriginals don’t want to abide by Canadian laws.

By the same token, most Canadians want to be free, wherever they go within our great nation. They don’t want to be blocked in, threatened, tormented, or taken advantage of for things they didn’t do, and have no power to help make better.

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Mohawk leader surrenders to police

NAPANEE, Ont. — Shawn Brant has turned himself in to the Ontario Provincial Police a week after he led Tyendinaga Mohawk demonstrators to blockade railways and roads in eastern Ontario for the National Day of Action.

The lanky 43-year-old arrived at the Napanee OPP station at 10 a.m. on Thursday, as he had promised to do on the weekend. He told waiting media that he was a man of honour, from a people of honour. (Edit: a people of honor perhaps, but a man of honor? please)

Half an hour earlier, a line of cars ferrying Mr. Brant, his lawyer, his wife and supporters, left the quarry that Mohawk protesters have been occupying since March.

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Brant’s arrest delayed; Mohawk militant frustrated at OPP

The man who led last week’s aboriginal blockades of Highway 2 and the CN rail line says he’ll turn himself in to authorities tomorrow and is frustrated that police approached him earlier than that.On Friday, Shawn Brant and a group of Mohawks organized the blockades in defiance of many native leaders’ admonitions. That same morning, the OPP issued an arrest warrant for him on a charge of mischief and breach of prior bail conditions.

During the weekend, Brant’s lawyer, Peter Rosenthal, entered negotiations with the Napanee detachment of the OPP for Brant’s surrender. Rosenthal has represented Brant in the past and will be his lawyer in the coming proceedings.

Brant said that despite his promise to appear for a bail hearing tomorrow, local OPP officers tried to arrest him yesterday morning. “The OPP had blocked the road and, I believe, were attempting to try and do an intervention,” he said, adding that he maintained a full force of men.“They were telling me that I should get in the car and go with them and there was a warrant for me,” Brant said.

“I told them that that was not the arrangement and I thought they should wait.”

He said the officers abandoned their attempt, but that he was left frustrated with the situation.

Related Story Here

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CN examining legal avenues

Canadian National says it is examining its legal options after a local aboriginal protest prompted it to halt traffic last week.The company is “reviewing our legal options and determining what’s available to us,” said spokesman Frank Binder of the rail line blockade on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory during Friday’s national aboriginal day of action. The threat of a blockade stopped an estimated $103 million worth of freight and about 5,000 passenger trips.

“There have been attempts to find Mr. Brant and execute the warrant,” she said. Tyendinaga Mohawk police officers “have been looking for him.” (Edit: YEAH RIGHT! The media can find him anytime they want to, and he lives in a school bus in the illegally occupied quarry in Deseronto but they can’t find him?)

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Terrorism at home

Peterborough Examiner

While we spend millions of dollars having our military clean up the bloody nose the U.S.A. created in Afghanistan, citizens of Ontario are subject to what appears to be home grown terrorism by the self-declared Mohawk State.

Phil Fontaine, in appearance an articulate, thoughtful representative of the native cause, shows us in video the deplorable conditions on some of the native reserves. This is effective. Nothing gets Canadians to dig into their pockets more than guilt, pity and the sense of concern and decency.Shutting down major economic and transportation routes is economic terrorism. Most people are sympathetic to the cause but these actions have and will continue to damage the good work done by men like Mr. Fontaine.

Instead of spending money to clean up Afghanistan and help its government gain control of that country, our army should be at home helping the inept Harper government gain control here. If some citizens of Havelock decided to blockade Highway 7 because of an unfair provincial or federal policy, the OPP riot squad would be called out, the citizens would be gassed, pepper sprayed and bludgeoned into submission, arrested and ultimately prosecuted. Where does this relate to fairness for one and all?

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Criminals now dictating the terms of their arrest

As reported on the morning of June 29th, the OPP issued a warrant for the arrest of Terrorist Shawn Brant while he was blockading roads and railways.

I wrote that morning that it was a token warrant which they were failing to enforce. It has been 4 days now, and (suprise) The OPP have not arrested Shawn Brant. I predicted the warrant was issued so the OPP could say they were doing something (besides shutting down the 401) and now they are proving it.

On June 29th, Brant said he was going to turn himself in at midnight. The OPP failed to arrest him despite knowing exactly where he was all day and instead watched as he maintained illegal blockades. At midnight they clearly let him walk away and if asked they would either refuse to comment or say something about not wanting to “escalate the situation” or ” to avoid confrontation “.

Rogue protester wanted for disruptive blockade

DESERONTO, Ont. (Jun 30, 2007)Police were hunting last night for the man who shut down traffic in eastern Ontario and parked $100 million of cargo during the national day of action.

Mohawk Shawn Brant and about 40 supporters shut down Hwy. 401 for about 11 hours, blocked Hwy. 2 and prompted railways to stop trains along the Toronto-Montreal and Ottawa-Montreal corridors.

The blockades captured most of the attention on what was otherwise a peaceful day of protest by natives drawing attention to living conditions on Canada’s reserves. CN Rail’s decision to halt traffic on its busiest Toronto-Montreal line meant a daily average of 25 freight trains and 22 Via Rail trains were blocked.

Brant was unrepentant, saying he’ll do it again.

“This is the first time ever we’ve shut down the 401, and I don’t believe it’s going to be the last,” said a defiant Brant. And he said he won’t surrender to police until sometime next week.

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So Canadian a Protest

A few short kilometres from each other on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, two distinct approaches to the national aboriginal day of action unfolded.On Wyman’s Road, a rickety school bus blocked the CN Rail tracks, part of a protest from a group of Mohawks led by Shawn Brant that saw Highway 401 closed for 12 hours and a portion of Highway 2 closed for the entire day Friday.

At York Road and Highway 2 in Shannonville, meanwhile, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (MBQ) band councillor Trevor Lewis handed out information pamphlets.

“If you’re headed east, we’re told Highway 2 is blocked,” Lewis told an agitated Quebec driver. “You can take York Road to Highway 49.”

“The 401’s blocked too,” the driver said. “Why is it blocked?”

“I don’t know,” Lewis said. “We’re not part of that.”

On a day of wildly conflicting approaches to educating the public on First Nations issues, that was putting it lightly. After days of talk in the media, Brant’s group headed to Highway 401 late Thursday evening to block it. But the OPP, anticipating safety issues, shut it down instead between Belleville and Marysville around 11:30 p.m., said Sgt. Kristine Rae. Commissioner Julian Fantino and other officers spoke with Brant throughout the night, “trying to resolve it,” she said.

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Uphold Canada’s laws

The aboriginal day of action has come and gone in Canada and the country is largely better for it. Across the land, native communities expressed their hopes and fears in actions that were, with a few notable exceptions, entirely lawful. Good for them.

But in eastern Ontario, the action taken was not legal but, instead, a violation of the law of the land and the rights of the general public. A small group of native protesters blockaded Highway 401 as well as Highway 2 and the main Canadian National Railway line between Montreal and Toronto. The leader of the natives, Shawn Brant, warned that they were armed with guns and ready to respond violently if provoked. This action, in marked contrast to the other demonstrations, was totally unacceptable. If not checked, it will threaten the civil peace and order of the nation.

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