It was clear to everyone that the Ottawa Police Service had failed in its duty to anticipate and control the protests. But what’s revealing is why the OPS failed
Then-chief Peter Sloly was appointed to be “an agent of change to address racism, misogyny, and a lack of community trust” in the service, the report states. In Mr. Sloly’s efforts, “he faced substantial resistance” resulting in a profound loss of trust between the chief and other officers. He “was heading the OPS at a time when the senior ranks had been depleted and expertise had been lost.”
“it was incumbent on the Province to become visibly, publicly, and wholeheartedly engaged from the outset,” wrote Justice Rouleau. Instead, “the Ontario Government was content to sit back and let the Federal Government ‘wear’ the problem.” That’s how Mr. Trudeau and then-Ottawa mayor Jim Watson viewed the situation, and the inquiry commissioner clearly agrees.
But in this pandemic, social media spread misinformation and disinformation that some people who were upset with restrictions latched onto. And Conservative Leader“The only reason that we had this emergency is because Justin Trudeau wanted it to happen, because he wanted to distract and divide Canadians,” Mr. Poilievre told reporters, in part “by imposing unnecessary and unscientific rules that brought an end to the livelihood of countless heroes.
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