Opinion: So far, there seems to be more focus by witnesses on assigning blame than on anyone accepting responsibility for this fiasco
Steve Kanellakos detailed a catalogue of bad calls, starting with then Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly’s initial assessment that the several hundred trucks that arrived on Friday, January 28th, would be gone by the following Wednesday.Sign up to know what's really happening by reading daily editorials and commentary by British Columbia's opinion leadersBy clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
After four days, there were no terrorist incidents, no deaths, no injuries and no arrests. “If they’d left after that weekend, it would have been an insignificant event,” he said. “We’d have cleaned up the city and moved on.” The city manager said he had a good working relationship with Sloly but said, by the second weekend, the police chief was still wondering if he had the legal authority to stop the truckers protesting, given that fundamental freedom is enshrined in the Constitution. Too bad OPS didn’t have access to a lawyer who could point toBy that stage, though, the protesters were entrenched and OPS did not have the resources to remove them, even if it had wanted to.
Trucks sit parked on Wellington Street near the Parliament buildings as truckers and their supporters take part in a convoy to protest COVID vaccine mandates, January 29, 2022.There appears to have been lots of motion but not much action at City Hall. The city declined to declare an emergency on January 31— Kanellakos said it only gave the city limited extra authority. Yet on February 6, it did so, as a symbolic gesture to convey “a sense of urgency” to other levels of government.
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