Blocked

If I block my neighbour’s driveway and claim that his house is sitting on land that’s rightfully mine based on a story that my great-great-great grandfather used it and never actually got around to deeding it over to anyone else, or didn’t really know what deeding it over actually meant, I’d be lucky to get away with just an injunction to take the sawhorses down.

Regardless of what one might think about native land claims–and the history of conquest shows that they’ve been given much more consideration to their claims than most conquered peoples centuries after the fact–letting them get away with blockades only encourages more of the same, and worse. Around Caledonia, the OPP’s inaction has just kept the matter dragging and dragging on.

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