Extremists could use peaceful pipeline protests in Canada as cover, intel report claims

Tyendinaga Mohawks block Via railway with bus, 2007.

By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press, December 6, 2015

OTTAWA — Intelligence officials are concerned that extremists might infiltrate peaceful anti-petroleum protests to “incite violence,” a newly disclosed assessment indicates.

The federal analysis of threats to the passenger rail system introduces a new twist to the often tense debate over state scrutiny of environmental demonstrators that otherwise harmless activists might unwittingly harbour dangerous terrorists.