Are Military Forces Operating from Hamilton Airport in Six Nations Standoff?
– Anthony Fenton & Dru Oja Jay, The Dominion, April 22, 2006 – A military force of unknown size and capacity seems to be operating out of the Hamilton Airport, according to information gathered by the Dominion. The deployment of military forces would be a major escalation in the standoff between native protesters and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). The OPP has tried once, unsucessfully, to remove demonstrators occupying a housing development that Six Nations Kanienkehake (Mohawks) say is illegal under Canadian, Haudenosaunee and international law. In an interview, an Airport official initially confirmed that Canadian Forces were at the airport in a “back up support” capacity. Mary Beth Horvath, Marketing/Commuications Coordinator for the Hamilton Airport, initially told the Dominion that Canadian Forces were not “using it [the airport] as a staging ground. I haven’t heard it regarded in that term.” Asked later to confirm, Horvath repeated that “there is some backup support there.”
