City staff entertained allowing the trucks to remain on a street indefinitely, notes presented in court showed.
The notes were produced by the defence during the criminal trial of two convoy organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. They had struck a deal with then-mayor Jim Watson to move trucks out of residential neighbourhoods and onto Wellington Street during the protest last year.The city’s emergency services manager, Kim Ayotte, was at the meeting between city staff, police and convoy organizers, which took place on Feb. 13.
Ayotte told the court Thursday that police never agreed to stage the trucks indefinitely, and that was not part of the deal.Article contentAyotte said he considered the agreement they struck a success on Feb. 14, when Barber reported to Ayotte that he had worn himself out moving 40 trucks.“We had little troubles this morning in communication with some city police,” Barber wrote to Ayotte in a text message sent Feb. 15. The message was filed as evidence in the trial.
Lawrence Greenspon, the lawyer representing Lich, said Ayotte’s affidavit did not mention the agreement by convoy organizers to reduce the footprint of the protest zone that had been struck earlier the day.
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