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By Curtis Galbraith

Canada

Warkentin calls for an end to what he calls “illegal blockades”

Feb 19, 2020 | 4:14 PM

Grande Prairie-Mackenzie MP Chris Warkentin says the blockades on rail lines in Canada are illegal and is accusing the Prime Minister of weak leadership.

“Enough is enough, we can no longer allow these illegal blockades to hold Canada hostage. The rule of law is a foundation of our democracy and the law must be enforced,” says Warkentin in a news release.

In that same release, he acknowledges that people in Canada have a right to protest, even if we don’t agree with what they are saying, but adds they do not have a right to close down rail lines and ports, or to stop businesses and farmers from getting what they produce to port.

“Justin Trudeau’s weak response to this national crisis fails to include a clear denunciation that the blockades are illegal, and he has failed to provide an action plan that would put an end to the illegal blockages and get our economy back on track. If Justin Trudeau wanted to show leadership, he’d tell the RCMP to enforce the law, rather than abdicating his responsibility as Prime Minister,” adds Warkentin in that same release.

Warkentin says many of the elected councillors and people of Wet’suwet’en First Nation, along with the majority of the hereditary chiefs, support the Coastal Gas Link pipeline project.

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Opposition to the pipeline from some Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs led two protests in that area in British Columbia that have since spread across the country.