Just a stone’s throw from police action against the truckers’ protest in Canada, parliamentarians were furiously debating Justin Trudeau’s extraordinary decision to use emergency measures.
OTTAWA — Around the corner from one of the front lines between police and the “Freedom Convoy” supporters, a family with two children carted bottles of water to give out to demonstrators on Saturday afternoon.
Children continue to be brought to the front line of police operations, Bell said. “This is dangerous and is putting young children at risk.” Those who remained on the streets shouted about freedom. They took selfies, sang “O Canada” and livestreamed their proximity to the action. While the never-before-used emergency measures enacted this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make it clear that taking anyone under the age of 18 to an unlawful assembly is illegal, some brought children anyway.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino took part in a press conference on Saturday morning during which he defended use of emergency measures that allow the federal government to temporarily expand policing and give it broad financial powers to punish violators.Medicino said the measures have allowed authorities to freeze at least 76 accounts associated with the illegal blockades, representing approximately C$3.2 million.
The massive, multi-layered push to rid the capital’s core of hundreds of heavy trucks and demonstrators produced results almost immediately. The crowd reached into the thousands at times around a sound stage set up outside the Prime Minister’s Office. They trucked in porta potties, inflated bouncy castles and even managed to heat an inflatable hot tub amid the freezing temperatures.
With the massive police operation finally taking back neighborhoods, residents are asking the obvious: “What took so long?”Ottawa Centre MP Yasir Naqvi “How did we get here?” he asked before reading a long list of culprits into the parliamentary record. In the House, the debate carried on with Conservative MPs accusing the Liberal government of overreach and blaming Trudeau for the standoff in the streets below.
Conservative House Leader John Brassard didn’t mince words, saying Saturday that the unrest was stoked by a prime minister who plays identity politics, “wedging, stigmatizing, dividing, calling people racist, misogynist, extremist and asking whether we have to tolerate these people.”
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