The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) and its former chief had no choice but to allow thousands of trucks to flood the city’s downtown during the initial stages of last winter’s convoy protest in the capital, and feared stopping them risked making a bad situation worse.
That’s according to closing submissions published Tuesday by the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is probing the federal government’s decision on Feb. 14 to invoke the Emergencies Act to end the occupation of Ottawa and similar blockades elsewhere.
This whole exercise was just a pantomime of democracy. Nothing can or will come of it beyond a reinforced knowledge that Justin Trudeau is the worst PM Canada has ever known and our ruling class is equally despicable.
