To make sense of the police response to the Ottawa convoy, look at Ipperwash
Flag-waving protesters in downtown Ottawa in February, 2022, and near the entrance to Ontario’s Ipperwash Provincial Park in September, 1995.Paul Wells is a journalist and author based in Ottawa. This is adapted from his coming bookThree times in the second week of the 2022 convoy protests, the Ottawa Police Service tried to shrink its footprint and make it less hazardous.
The liaison team presented the protesters with a letter from the National Capital Commission saying it was time to go or else the Ottawa police public order units would clear the park. Public order units are the enforcers people demand when they don’t like protesters. A lot of recent trends in policing have to do with using these units as a last resort. When the written notice from the National Capital Commission went up on the following Sunday, telling people it was time to leave, most did.
Where did these police liaison teams – with their close consultation with protesters, their non-judgmental stance, their preference for negotiated outcomes instead of arrests – come from? Mr. Beaudin said he’d never had any disagreement with his grandmother before. The warning wasn’t personal, but I bet it stung. Her concern was over his new job. The mistrust she was expressing has to do with the often tragic and brutal history of police treatment of Indigenous Canadians. “Quite often, we were seen removing kids from families, returning children back to residential schools if they ran away,” he said.
The federal government had expropriated the land from the Stony Point Chippewas during the Second World War, with promises to give it back later. Ottawa never did give the land back. So a bunch of band members camped out for weeks to remind everyone of unkept promises. “When we see that there’s going to be potential conflict, our job is to reach out, build relationships,” Mr. Beaudin testified in front of Justice Rouleau. “You know, sometimes people just say the word ‘relationship’ and they don’t necessarily break that down. But to us, it actually means something.”
The liaison team philosophy is embodied in the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police’s National Framework for Police Preparedness for Demonstrations and Assemblies. The framework was published in 2019 based on input by experts and practitioners across the country. Including Mr. Beaudin. “Relationship building aids in the development of respect, rapport, reciprocity, trust and empathy,” the Chiefs of Police’s National Framework reads.
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