Court injunctions barring blockades on rail lines will do little to deter frustrated First Nations residents from staging similar demonstrations across the country, an aboriginal protester who led an eastern Ontario blockade said Thursday.”I don’t believe that an injunction changes the circumstances that people live in across this country,” protest leader Shawn Brant said outside court Thursday.
“I don’t believe it serves to resolve those issues.” “This injunction or these proceedings, in fact, will bring about a reaction, and maybe an unintended reaction, that CN wasn’t looking for,” Brant said outside the court.
“They have to bear the consequences of how they’re proceeding now.”
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