‘No escape’: Emergencies Act inquiry hears Ottawans describe loss of hearing, trauma Former Ottawa Police Service chief Peter Sloly previously said that the force did not have intelligence about the anticipated scale of the duration.
But evidence released Monday shows top city officials were well aware of the potential for a sustained and significant protest.Steve Kanellakos, the city’s top bureaucrat, testified Monday that the city’s hotel association warned him of a surge in long-term hotel bookings days before heavy trucks and protesters ground downtown Ottawa to a halt.A Jan.
25 email forwarded to Mayor Jim Watson’s office indicated that roughly 10,000 members of the protest’s “fleet” intended to stay in Ottawa between 30 and 90 days.“After having raised $3+ million through the crowdfunding initiative, the truckers are starting to reach out to hotels to book stays of at least 30 days,” wrote Mathieu Gravel, Watson’s director of issues and outreach, wrote in an email to top city bureaucrats.“(Their plan) is basically that they will leave their trucks in place, chain them together, and attempt to block all access to the city.” Where’s ‘freedom’ from here?
Canada’s convoy protests are over, but the anger remains The Public Order Emergency Commission is an independent judicial inquiry into the federal government’s decision to invoke emergency powers to clear the protests on Feb.