Niagara Centre MPP Jeff Burch is trying to draw attention to the arrest of a local journalist while reporting on a land dispute in Caledonia.
Karl Dockstader was reporting from the site of a proposed housing development earlier this month when he was arrested.
Burch says the local journalist, and co-host of One Dish One Mic on 610 CKTB provided his media documents, but he was still charged with mischief and disobeying a court order.
Dockstader has a court date in late November.
MPP Burch spoke of the arrest at Queen's Park today saying the arrest undermines a journalists' ability to cover a story.
Burch says the September 2nd arrest speaks to unacceptable patterns of the treatment of journalists and criminalized behaviour against Indigenous people.