The Manitoba government is taking steps to file an injunction application to ensure that any rail blockades in Manitoba will be dealt with effectively.

This comes on the heels of the first rail blockage protest taking place in Diamond, Manitoba, which is approximately 68 kilometres east of Portage la Prairie.

Rail blockage protests have been popping up around Canada as a support to the Wet'suwet'en blockade of a Coastal Gaslink Pipeline in Northern British Columbia.

Premier Brian Pallister explains the injunction process. 

"Over the next few days, the actual application for the injunction will be finalized, and then that will be filed with the courts, and it will be in the court's hands. Of course, as elected people, we don't control the court process, the judiciary is independent of us. We would hope that this injunction would be granted, and then we could prevent any further disruption."

Attorney General Cliff Cullen and his department will be spear-heading and finalizing the application to be submitted.

Rail Blockades have been popping up in major cities across Canada including Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.

Pallister says they're not opposed to people protesting.

"Legal protest is a freedom that all Canadians enjoy. What protesters can't do, is put themselves above the law, however, there is no excuse for that. You have a voice, but you don't have a veto over projects for example. What we're seeing in Canada right now is protesters are putting themselves above the law, and that is not acceptable."

He says the foundation of Canada isn't just the development of things like national highways and rail programs.

"If you understand that our foundation fundamentally is equality under the law, then disrespecting that equality means you don't understand what built this country and made it a great country in the first place. The fact of the matter is the laws don't just apply to some of us, they apply to all of us," says Pallister. "The fact of the matter is we all have a responsibility to abide by those laws regardless of race, creed, or colour, or in fact, the interest we might have in opposing a certain project."