Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a closing press conference following the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. Trudeau cancelled a trip to Barbados scheduled for Monday, where planned to secure votes in the Caribbean for Canada’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
Canada’s Prime Minister is cutting his overseas trip short to start dialogue about the protests over the Translink pipeline, Indigenous lands and their rights.
The list of grievances is long and has been ongoing for years.
National Chief Perry Bellegarde speaks his mind below, February 16, 2020:
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, February 15, 2020, at Tyendinaga, in his meeting with the Mohawk First Nation over the ongoing blockades had a “chance to talk” with a group of people who he says “haven’t felt part of this country,” that “they felt like allies at times and they’ve felt betrayed.”
Miller responded to criticism about how long it took for him to meet with the Mohawk First Nation at Tyendinaga, saying he had to be invited first before he could meet with members.
He also said he wanted to stress the discussion was facilitated by “very strong leadership” in the community who “want to see peace” with dialogue.
Here Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller joined
The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson, February 16, 2020
Indigenous-Led Rail Blockades Could Cost ‘Billions’
and That’s the Point: Organizers
Wet’suwet’en supporters stand on a closed train track in Tyendinaga, near Belleville, Ontario, on Friday. Lars Hagberg (CP)
By Anya Zoledziowski, Vice, February 14, 2020
Canada’s CN railway system screeched to a halt this week amid political mobilization by Indigenous youth supporting Wet’suwet’en Nation in its ongoing fight against a $6.6 billion pipeline.
Via Rail also shut down most passenger travel routes traveling along CN tracks.
Protesters have blocked railway routes in B.C., Manitoba, and across eastern Canada, including in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, and more than 400 trains have been cancelled so far.
Authorities have managed to dismantle the protests in Manitoba and will likely put an end to those in B.C. soon, but in Ontario, CN is still waiting for a court order that’ll sanction police assistance, and potentially, arrests.
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Groups in North and even South America that are standing with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in protest for Indigenous rights
THE SCALES OF JUSTICE, OF WORTH AND OF THE UNIVERSE, IN BALANCE
I invoke Wakanataka, White Buffalo Calf Woman,
Chief Sitting Bull, Chief Cochise, Chief Red Cloud,
Chief White Cloud, Chief Joseph, Chief Geronimo,
Yeshua, the Magdalena, Sanat Kumara, St. Germaine,
the Mighty Ones, the Mother, the Universal Laws,
the Divine Blessings, Virtues, Qualities,
the Dimensional Growth Patterns
for Peace, Love, Joy within/without,
the elimination of the judgement, bigotry, hatred,
limitation, control, the insidious ways not of love within/without.
