The city had an email from the local hotel association indicating the convoy was booking rooms for 10,000 people for at least 30 days
Ottawa’s City Manager Steve Kanellakos told the commission the city expected the convoy protesters to stay only through the first weekend of the protest and then leave.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
Kanellakos said they shared that information with police, but there are often different assessments and information about how the protest would unfold, something the capital has a lot of experience with. “The risk was they would leave their vehicles on the 417, or in neighborhoods all over the city and just walk away,” he testified.
Kanellakos said the city had two heavy tow trucks, but staff didn’t feel safe using them to remove heavy trucks from the core.“We ended up calling tow truck companies in other cities, the province, the federal government, looking to see if we could access heavy duty tow trucks for use in the event,” he said. “And you’re getting declined by everybody we call in that they didn’t want to get involved.
Others feared damage to their own vehicles, as well as reputational damage that would lead them to lose business.
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