TORONTO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th February, 2020) More than 60 percent of Canadians disagree with anti-pipeline protesters blockading key road and rail corridors and over half want authorities to intervene, a Global News/Ipsos poll revealed.
"As the indigenous blockade of key transportation corridors in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en Nation continues for another week, a majority of Canadians (61%) say they disagree (26% strongly/35% somewhat) that the protestors are conducting justified and legitimate protests, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global news," the release said Wednesday.
Furthermore, according to the poll, 53% support police intervention to end the blockades.
However, the poll indicates that support for the blockades is growing, given that seven years earlier 69% of Canadians disagreed with the notion that the blockades are justified and legitimate.
Canadians also overwhelmingly (75%) agree that the government has to do more to improve indigenous living conditions.
The protests expanded nationwide earlier this month after authorities arrested activists in the province of British Columbia who were trying to protect indigenous land from an oil pipeline project. Indigenous protesters have shut down Canada's busiest railway corridor between Toronto and Montreal.
