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Originally Posted by GGG
what specific powers we required that were not available to the government to end the protest? Why was Ambassador able to be cleared without these powers? On what basis do you believe the bolded? What piece of evidence from the commission leads you to believe this?
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The general sense that I have is that no police or government wanted to be the bad guy and stand up to the convoy. The Ottawa police certainly didn’t. The OPP didn’t clear anything. The Ottawa mayor and city council didn’t push. Doug Ford and the Ontario province was just as MIA as he is for these hearings. Tow truck companies wouldn’t act. Nothing was happening.
It wasn’t until the Federation Government took matters into their own hands, invoked the EA, and “overstepped” into someone else’s jurisdiction that something occurred.
The fact that nobody else wanted the PR hit in order to act meant that nothing would have happened. Replacing Chiefs of Police or Mayors or other politicians would have taken weeks or months to be effective. The EA was a “I don’t want to but I am forced to act” get out of jail PR card to get things done.
Should it have been needed? Of course not. The other levels of police and government *should* have stepped in. The fact that they didn’t and were showing no willingness to even try meant that other “extreme” actions were needed. And they were effective.
Maybe we need to develop other methods to compel action?