Nobody wants an Ipperwash sequel. In 1995 Dudley George was shot dead during a standoff in Ipperwash, Ontario. Today, a standoff between native protesters and police at a construction site in Caledonia, Ontario, continues and sympathy demonstrations are disrupting freight train and Via Rail service.
The demonstrators are attempting to stop construction by Henco Industries on land they say was stolen from the Six Nations in 1841. Here's a PDF that illustrates the history of the land claim. More demonstrators are arriving each day and sympathy demonstations will likely multiply.
You can sense the tensions escalating. One spark could set off a hellish conflagration. Nobody wants that. Nobody wants another Ipperwash.
