By The Canadian Press

Saskatoon blockade

Saskatoon protest springs up, even after Trudeau orders blockades torn down

Feb 22, 2020 | 6:00 PM

SASKATOON – Another rail-line protest has sprung up in Saskatoon today, even after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered all blockades along transportation routes dismantled.

Local police say they’re monitoring the protest along the
railroad tracks but declined to comment further, and a statement
from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a train was allowed to pass through the protest area as scheduled.

Moe says that the protest must remain lawful and that transport
routes cannot be disrupted by illegal blockades.

The barricades, including one on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in
eastern Ontario, are in response to a move by the RCMP to clear
protesters who had been blocking access to a pipeline worksite on
Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia.

Increased attention is on Canadian police forces today now that
Trudeau has ordered the enforcement of anti-blockade injunctions.

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A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief says protesters won’t tear down
the barricades themselves unless and until the Mounties get off
their traditional territory and Coastal GasLink halts construction
on the natural-gas pipeline that crosses their land.
(The Canadian Press)