The protesters didn\u0027t come from Mars, or from anywhere outside Canada
Echoing the OPP, Ottawa Police Service incident commander Supt. Robert Bernier made clear that the Emergencies Act was not required for the police to do their job. Added to this, interim Ottawa police chief Steve Bell said that while the emergency powers were “helpful,” they were not “needed” for the police, the OPP and the RCMP as part of their unified command to do their job.
Leave the police aside — there’s ample reason to have little faith in Ottawa’s outgoing mayor, Jim Watson. One of his more outlandish suggestions after the protests had already been cleared was that protesters’ vehicles that had been seized be sold and the proceeds used for policing costs. City solicitor David White,that since been made public, shot down the idea, saying the city had no legal authority to permanently seize vehicles in such a manner.
Equally disturbing was some of Chief Bell’s verbiage during his testimony to the commission of inquiry. He repeatedly referred to the protests as an “occupation” and the protesters as “occupiers,” terms widely used by critics and opponents of the protests. Such terms are clearly intended to delegitimize what was in fact a peaceful disobedience movement, of a type that Canada or Ottawa has not seen much of, but which is common around the world, including in our neighbour to the south.
Perhaps Bell as a private citizen believes the protest was an occupation, but it’s surely inappropriate for him to use this term when giving testimony as police chief. Strictly speaking, an occupation refers to outsiders, such as a foreign army, taking over part of your territory. It’s ludicrous to apply that to a situation where fellow Canadians came to the nation’s capital to protest federal mandates.
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