Calendonia: residents finally awarded $20 million, after Indians took over their neighbourhood and police stood by and watched
By Kathy Shaidle on Saturday, July 9th, 2011
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Yes, this happened in Canada. In this century.
Imagine a Western where the Indians and the cavalry gang up on the settlers…
Today, the expert on the occupation, Christie Blatchford, reports:
It was in February of 2006 that a handful of aboriginals from the nearby Six Nations reserve first walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, a residential subdivision then under construction along the town’s main street.
With the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ontario government determined to handle the occupation as a land claims dispute or “reclamation” the protesters remained unmolested on the land, their numbers and confidence growing. (…)
What happened in the weeks and months after was widespread lawlessness that ranged from the minor to the serious. It included the destruction of an electricity tower (which caused a three-day blackout to the area), the torching of a bridge, the hijacking of a police car with officers inside it and unprovoked assaults by natives upon a local builder, who suffered a permanent brain injury, an elderly couple whose offence was to drive by the site and a Hamilton TV crew who dared try to video-record that.
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