The prime minister gave a scathing description of what he saw as police mishandling of the crisis in the nation’s capital, which he said helped justify resorting to the emergency powers.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he did not have confidence in the Ottawa police response to the self-styled “Freedom Convoy” protests even in the early days, and the RCMP did not inform him of any joint operational plan capable of ending the Ottawa blockades as he was on the verge of invoking the Emergencies Act.
Instead, Trudeau said there was a “clear consensus” the crisis warranted Canada’s first-ever use of the federal emergencies law, and that — based on briefings he received at the time — police still had no “real plan” to end the protest occupation in Ottawa that had already lasted more than two weeks.
“We continue to work with her to keep our communities safe and make significant progress on an array of important issues — including reforming the RCMP, advancing Indigenous policing, protecting Canadians from gun violence and more,” said Mendicino’s spokesperson, Alexander Cohen, in a statement to the Star.
He said the hope and expectation was by the second weekend, the protests would decrease. Instead, there was a “surge,” and police statements they could respond “didn’t seem to be materializing,” he said.
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