OTTAWA — New evidence shows the Parliamentary Protective Service took issue with the City of Ottawa’s plan to move “Freedom Convoy” protesters’ semi trucks out…
The security service feared that Wellington Street would become a “parking lot,” the city’s top bureaucrat said in a written summary of a statement given to legal counsel ahead of a public inquiry.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.
City manager Steve Kanellakos said in the statement that he wasn’t sure if the protective service was consulted on the plan. Kanellakos said he believed that a superintendent of the Parliamentary Protective Service reached out to Ottawa police, and that the security force “expressed concern” with the street being “turned into a parking lot of 200-plus trucks.”
The proposed deal came as anger mounted from residents who were fed up with the around-the-clock noise brought by the February protests.Share this article in your social network