Haven’t seen anyone piss or dance on the war memorial yet or demand food at homeless shelters either…
Yeah that was crazy, I didn't forget at all.
That was 2022, any updates. My guess is many of the charges will be plead away.
So all these truckers just randomly showed up in Ottawa? It was my understand that they moved effectively across the country.
I agree with everyone having the right to peacefully assemble, however it is fairly clear that a number of these gatherings are also designed to intimidate people, and their right to assemble ends when it steers into the right of society to be free and feel safety and no persecution. When those crowds chant River to the Sea, that is a genocidal call, to eradicate the Jewish culture and people of Israel, which isn’t peaceful.
thecjn.ca
As the saying goes in the US, “freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences”.People are free to support or not support whatever they like. But they should’t expect to be free of consequences when they wade in. Several businesses in Ottawa found that out the hard way.
These guys are about to as well…
UJA has filed a legal claim against two Toronto bus contractors for damages, and alleged human rights violations over refusal of service to Jews—but lawyers still haven't found the subcontractor identified as 'Prestige Worldwide'
The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto has filed a legal claim against the contractor and subcontractor who failed to deliver 17 of the 70 the buses hired
Oh, if you mean the sort of minor roadside hassle we might leverage against OMGs, sure, but that’s a brief delay and would not have impacted the big picture. Maybe caught a few people with driver’s license/insurance/registration of commercial vehicle safety issues. But such an ‘interdiction’ isn’t really something with precedent for quashing public order issues that had not, at that point in time, yet become illegal. in and of itself there’s nothing wrong with driving to Ottawa en masse for a protest. Where it became criminal was the actions that they took place once on the ground.
www.nydailynews.com
People are free to support or not support whatever they like. But they should’t expect to be free of consequences when they wade in. Several businesses in Ottawa found that out the hard way.
These guys are about to as well…
UJA has filed a legal claim against two Toronto bus contractors for damages, and alleged human rights violations over refusal of service to Jews—but lawyers still haven't found the subcontractor identified as 'Prestige Worldwide'
The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto has filed a legal claim against the contractor and subcontractor who failed to deliver 17 of the 70 the buses hired
So, I lived there when it happened.
More police than civic. Police operational decision makers are well shielded form civic political whims when it comes to specific operational decisions like how to respond to an individual protest. The entirety of Ottawa's civic government could have been screaming in the face of the chief of OPS and it would have been entirely the police service's call. My understanding from what I've heard is that part of the issue was that the municipal police chief was stepping too heavily on his operational commanders filling the role of the Critical Incident Commander. Even the chief of police generally isn't making operational calls; their job is to run the department. Ops get delegated.
