First Nation Protestors Block Train's Path in Canada

From BBC News

Service on Canada's VIA Rail commuter line between Toronto and Ottawa has been suspended amid a protest by First Nations members.

Demonstrators from a Mohawk reserve blocked the tracks near Marysville to call attention to a spate of murders of indigenous women, media report. VIA Rail says it will replace scheduled trains with buses between the cities.

As many as 20 people are camped by the tracks, broadcaster CTV reported. "For security reasons, we cannot proceed and have our trains moving on the tracks," rail spokesman Jacques Gagnon told CTV.
Service between Ottawa and Montreal is running, VIA Rail said.

Sun News reported the First Nations group had lit a small fire alongside a sign reading, "Justice for murdered and missing indigenous women."

Earlier this month, protesters also temporarily blocked a cargo rail line and a local highway in the same area.
The recent blockades follow a response to a parliamentary report on missing and murdered aboriginal women that did not recommend a full public inquiry into the deaths, a decision that angered First Nations activists and opposition parties in parliament.

More than 600 indigenous women have gone missing or have been found murdered in the past 20 years, according to the Native Women's Association of Canada. And the February killing of Loretta Saunders, an Inuk student working on a thesis about missing and murdered indigenous women, has also reignited action over the issue.