Trenton, Canada—Despite prime minister Trudeau’s statement that actions by members of the Mohawk nation at the barricade in Toronto are “extremely concerning”, protesters are still putting up blockades across the region.
The assailants who were wiped out from the train tracks stood on the railway track and faced a speeding train, lastly, they jumped for safety. The footage showing the adventure is available on the social media website.
Police were seen moving trash while the activists set tires ablaze.
Trudeau remarked, “It is extremely concerning to see people endangering their own lives and the lives of others by trying to interfere with the trains”.
Other blockades spawned across the region as police efforts to remove the protestors from the railway tracks were backfired.
Several assailants were detained in Toronto at the passenger train tracks.
The barricades, since the last three weeks, are to support the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief on their stance to oppose the Can$6 billion natural gas pipeline crossing their territory.
Twenty groups have acknowledged the project along with their hereditary chiefs, yet, five hereditary chiefs are against the project.
The hereditary chiefs refused to end their protests until the RCMP to Royal Canadian mounted police leave their field and the company behind the pipeline project, the coastal gas link halts construction.
The RCMP entered the British Columbia site a few weeks ago and still, patrolling the area.
Bill Blair, the public safety minister said: “The RCMP cannot vacate the area because residents have a right to police services”.
Meanwhile, Trudeau said blockades are detrimental to the economy and must finish off. The transport minister Marc Garneau said, “Police will enforce court injunctions issued against the blockades and remove protesters”.
As of the protests are peaceful, yet the Mohawks of Kahnawake close to Montreal warned in a press release that could shift.
They held “It has become very obvious that use of injunctions and police against Indigenous people who are simply defending their land from unwanted development will not produce a peaceful resolution”.
The government aspires to meet up with the hereditary chiefs to discuss the end of the barricades.–Worldwide News