In 2006, a similar dynamic played out in Caledonia, where Indigenous protesters blocked workers from entering a local subdivision under construction. For months there was lawlessness, including property violence — the burning of an electrical transformer, the torching of a bridge, the throwing of a vehicle from an overpass. The Ontario Provincial Police stood down, stood by and stood aside. Ultimately, as detailed in the book Helpless by the late, legendary Post columnist Christie Blatchford, the government failed to govern. Eventually, the provincial government would buy the disputed land and halt the development.