Ottawa police, City Hall knew convoy protests would dig in: documents
The Public Order Emergency Commission is an independent judicial inquiry into the federal government’s decision to invoke emergency powers to clear the protests on Feb. 14. The commission will ultimately determine if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unprecedented decision to use the Emergencies Act was legally justified.
But over the six weeks of scheduled hearings, it will also probe municipal and provincial officials about the events leading up to the decision to use the most exceptional law available to the federal government. The central question is whether the federal government was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act and if the protests — which included blockades of Canada-U.S. border crossings in Windsor, Ont., and Coutts, Alta. — could not be resolved without emergency powers.And a significant part of that question concerns the Ottawa police — and later the Parliamentary Protective Service and RCMP — and how they handled the protests.
According to the City of Ottawa’s own timeline, a convoy organizer advised city hall on Jan. 24 that they could expect upwards of 50,000 protesters, who planned to “camp out at Parliament Hill indefinitely” and “attempt a citizens’ arrest on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.”Despite the warning, the Ottawa police prepared for just a three-day deployment, and anticipated just 300 trucks — far fewer than ultimately arrived on Jan. 28 and 29.
That Feb. 14 decision will ultimately be the main question for the judicial commission. But residents of Ottawa who lived through what police referred to as an “occupation” will learn a lot about how the city handled the situation along the way.
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