Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said the government is still willing to negotiate and aims to ensure all the blockades come to an end
OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says he is still open to talks with Indigenous protesters to bring an end to railway blockades even as police moved in on Monday to clear the tracks.
In response, Mohawks in Kanesatake, northwest of Montreal, blocked the highway running through their community, while in Kahnawake, to the south of the city, protesters staged a rolling blockade that briefly halted traffic heading to a major bridge leading to Montreal. “We are not only fighting days of suspicion and mistrust, but decades and even centuries in some cases,” he said.
For most of last week, Trudeau focused on calling for talks with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, who refused his invitations. All of the blockades have been in support of those chiefs and Mohawk protesters had said they would take the blockades down when the Wet’suwet’en chiefs were satisfied. “The clock didn’t start ticking on Friday. The clock started ticking 19 days ago and he did nothing up until Friday, so he is now living with the consequences he created.”
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