The demonstrations, sparked by opposition to a proposed B.C. gas line, have already become the defining challenge of Justin Trudeau’s second term as PM
Indigenous demonstrators and their allies blocked new rail lines, highways and other critical infrastructure points Tuesday — including the Port of Vancouver — as protests that began in a tiny B.C. community months ago once again grew and spread to new sites all over the country.
Those blockades were only a few of the many that have popped up across Canada since the OPP raid Monday. In Vancouver, demonstrators seized an intersection leading into the busy commercial port Monday afternoon. They remained in place until police forced them out late Tuesday. In Montreal, several hundred people took to the streets in support of the those protests, while outside the city, Mohawk demonstrators temporarily blocked the highway at Kanesatake, near one of the key sites of the 1990 Oka crisis, according to CBC.
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