{"id":10252,"date":"2011-07-13T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2011-07-13T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T15:58:34","slug":"a-bit-more-on-the-caledonia-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/a-bit-more-on-the-caledonia-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit more on the Caledonia settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/07\/13\/national-post-editorial-board-the-shame-of-caledonia-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Post<\/em><\/a> looks at the shameful way the Ontario government has acted through the confrontation in Caledonia:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This week\u2019s settlement of a class-action lawsuit fits right in with the government\u2019s modus operandi. Four years after the suit was filed, Mr. McGuinty\u2019s Liberals will pay a group of residents and business owners $20-million in recompense for the disruption that was caused when the Ontario Provincial Police elected to ignore the rampant violence and lawbreaking that accompanied the aboriginals\u2019 illegal seizure of land. The money will be divided among about 800 claimants, according to a formula related to their proximity to the occupied territory and exposure to acts of violence. As usual, the province has done its best to gag any complaints by insisting that details of the agreement remain confidential.<\/p>\n<p>The class-action suit specified four instances at the height of the dispute in which roads were closed, court injunctions were violated and a hydro-electric transformer was burned. But those were just a sampling of the many episodes in which police, acting under clear instruction, blatantly ignored the aboriginals\u2019 contempt for the law. Families were terrorized, threatened, driven from their homes or forced to show aboriginal \u201cpassports\u201d to gain access to their own neighbourhoods. It was like a scene from some balkanized tin-pot regime, in other words &mdash; local residents might be inclined to call it the Banana Republic of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Donna Reid, a Caledonia resident who has been among the most critical of the government, dismissed the settlement as \u201chush money\u201d by a Liberal administration that is facing re-election and wants the issue to go away. The amount received by most residents will do little to offset five years worth of disruption that has embittered relations and turned part of the town into a no-go area.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Post looks at the shameful way the Ontario government has acted through the confrontation in Caledonia: This week\u2019s settlement of a class-action lawsuit fits right in with the government\u2019s modus operandi. Four years after the suit was filed, Mr. McGuinty\u2019s Liberals will pay a group of residents and business owners $20-million in recompense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,9,28],"tags":[637,584,438,267,87,98],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-law","category-media","tag-caledonia","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-firstnations","tag-justice","tag-ontario","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Fm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10253,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions\/10253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}