DESERONTO, Ont. (CP) — Mohawk protesters, who said they had guns and wouldn’t back down, began preparations for blockades of the main CN line and Highway 401 near this eastern Ontario town late Thursday, despite widespread calls that an aboriginal day of action be peaceful.
There were reports that dozens of provincial police cruisers had amassed in the nearby city of Napanee.
It was a call to action by protest leader Shawn Brant, a militant Mohawk who has done jail time for trashing the offices of politicians. He stands out as the lone voice calling for militancy on what others had hoped would be a day devoted to public education about native issues.
Brant said he intended to lead blockades of one or both of the main traffic and rail corridors between Toronto and Montreal starting at midnight Thursday night, or before.
He wouldn’t disclose the actual sites, but confirmed that he and others were prepared to “meet force with force” if police got in their way.
“We’ve made no secret that we have guns within this camp,” he told The Canadian Press in an interview.
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