Endorsing the act contradicts the premier\u0027s original position that it was exclusively a policing matter
Tuesday was a moment to savour. The haughtiest of aristocrats would struggle to display a greater sense of disdain for the great unwashed of the Canadian hinterland than Watson expressed towards the proletarian mob that rumbled into his streets, with their pickup trucks, their portable hot tubs and their unrefined attitudes.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
According to chair Diane Deans, Sloly — who as an “outsider” from Toronto was having trouble building respect among with his rank-and-file — figured the convoy would be a one-weekend wonder and would fade from memory within a few days. As city manager Steve Kanellakosthe hearing, “the role we played in the entire three-week period was to support the police,” so presumably if the police weren’t fussed there was no reason for the politicians to be.
This is when the buck really started to get passed. Ontario Premier Doug Ford saw the whole matter as a police issue and left it to the OPP to act, if they ever got the plan they wanted, which of course they didn’t. Watson turned to Prime Minister Justin