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Footage shows arrests at rail blockade in Ontario

Broadcast live to Facebook as the events unfolded
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A group called  broadcast from behind the protest line this morning, live from where arrests were taking place in Ontario.

The blockade near Belleville has crippled both freight and passenger rail traffic in most of eastern Canada for nearly three weeks.

Ontario Provincial Police and CN Rail had reportedly given protesters until midnight Sunday to clear the blockade or face an investigation and possible criminal charges.

The barricades were a response to a move by the RCMP to clear protesters who had been blocking access to a Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline worksite on Wet'suwet'en territory in northern British Columbia.

At 6:17am PST (9:17am EST) protesters with police after telling them "We don't give a f**k what you have to say", after being told they were about to be arrested.

An archive of the live stream of the arrests can be viewed below.

With files from The Canadian Press