While enjoying yourself putting money into slot machines at the casinos around these woods, you may hear the name Louis Riel spoken, thinking he’s some local guy they are speaking of, he isn’t and wasn’t. He is still spoken about with great Respect. Was a time Louis sought refuse in the United States ( exiled ) only to go back and be hung by the Canadian government. it’s a story as relevant today as it was then.
Words spoken at the Coutts, Alberta border crossing
In a Sunday statement, the RCMP said officers had asked the protesters to “clear the area” as the event was “unlawful,” but those demands had not been heeded as of Monday.
“It is at the discretion of police, who are independent in their decision making, to determine how they will address the blockade,” said Puddifant.
To quote one (RCMP officer) … ‘We’re getting impatient.’”
“I mean, it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that sooner or later something’s going to get a little more pushy than it is right now.”
A brief history of ” impatient ”
“In February 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided Wet’suwet’en land defenders in so-called British Columbia. At the climax of the raid, heavily-armed police officers, accompanied by snipers and attack dogs, arrested unarmed Wet’suwet’en matriarchs on their unceded Yintah (land) in the middle of a ceremony
Throughout the 20th century, Canadian military and police forces continued to play a central role in suppressing Indigenous resistance. In 1968, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the RCMP illegally arrested a number of Mohawk citizens of Akwesasne who blocked a bridge that had been built through their reserve near Cornwall, Ontario without proper consultation and in contravention of the 1794 Jay Treaty. In 1990, during the Oka conflict, Mohawks at Kanehsatà:ke endured a 78-day siege by La Sûreté du Québec, the RCMP, and the Canadian military for opposing the expansion of a nine-hole golf course on unceded Kanien’kéha:ka territory. Later that year, the RCMP forcibly arrested Lil’wat land defenders who were blocking Duffey Lake Road to protest clear-cut logging in their unceded territory. In 1995, the OPP shot and killed Dudley George during the Ipperwash Crisis. That same year, the RCMP carried out a 31-day siege of Secwepemc territory and arrested numerous Ts’peten land defenders during the Gustafsen Lake Standoff in British Columbia.
The truckies and Canadian people know very well the situation
JP… I fully accept your sincere apology