CN Rail Says Anti-Israel Protests Caused ‘Irreparable Harm’ to Freight Lines

Railway lawyers in Saskatchewan, Ontario, and New Brunswick have applied for injunctions to clear anti-Israel protesters from the tracks.
CN Rail Says Anti-Israel Protests Caused ‘Irreparable Harm’ to Freight Lines
Trains at the CN MacMillan Yard in Vaughan, Ont., on June 20, 2022. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
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Blockades by anti-Israel protesters have led the Canadian National Railway to lose millions of dollars and suffer “irreparable harm,” say courts in three provinces.

“I would have no difficulty in concluding that blockades of Canadian National Railway lines in New Brunswick would amount to irreparable harm to CN,“ wrote Justice Robert Dysart of the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. “It would amount to an unlawful trespass on CN’s property.”