Trudeau flees as first 1,000 Trucks Arrive in Ottawa

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It's mostly people on the Right.

If the police want them to move and they refuse, they have the same options with a truck as they do with a car - They can have them towed, for example (you didn't think mechanics take a portable workshop out to trucks that break down on the side of the road and need major repairs, did you?).

Vaush is generally considered to be a leftist but I'd agree about Jimmy Dore, he's attached himself too thoroughly to the alt-right to have any credibility as a left wing commentator.

I am woefully ignorant concerning YouTube pundits in general (I didn't even know who Joe Rogan is until I saw a thread about him on WP) but TBH the American Left doesn't really amount to that much and doesn't deserve this dude's attention. Better to pay attention to the Right.

Demonstrations in Ottawa turned violent Friday evening as protesters, according to authorities, assaulted officers and tried to remove their weapons.

"All means of de-escalation have been used to move forward in our goal of returning Ottawa to it's normalcy," police in Canada's capital said in a tweet.

Police tweeted a photograph of mounted officers forming a line. Officials said that was done to create a safe space between other officers and protesters angry about the nation's Covid-19 health measures. One person was arrested when a bicycle was thrown in the horses' direction, police said.

"You must leave. You must cease further unlawful activity and immediately remove your vehicle and/or property from all unlawful protest sites," police tweeted. "Anyone within the unlawful protest site may be arrested."

Interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell said earlier at least 70 people had been arrested for various offenses and 21 vehicles had been towed.
"We're in control of the situation on the ground and continue to push forward to clear our streets," Bell said at an afternoon news conference.
City, provincial and federal law enforcement officers began an unprecedented operation Friday morning to remove protesters and their trucks and cars that have been blockading Ottawa's streets for weeks.

Riot police, some with tactical gear, as well as mounted officers, held back protesters as they continued their demonstration against Covid-19 health restrictions.

Several trucks and cars have voluntarily left the protest but dozens continue to block streets in and around Parliament.

Ottawa police tweeted protesters placed children between police operations and the protest site.

CNN has observed those children on the protest site in the last several days. Bell said police have not needed to interact with The Children's Aid Society of Ottawa in connection with children in the crowd. The society, according to its website, is a non-profit community organization funded by Ontario's government and is legally mandated to protect children and youth from abuse and neglect.

"Even through all the planning, it still shocks and surprises me that we are seeing children put in harm's way, in the middle of a demonstration where a police operation is unfolding," Bell said. "We will continue to look after their safety and security but we implore all the parents who have kids in there, get the kids out of there."

Amid opposition in Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his decision to invoke emergency powers to put an end to the demonstrations during an address Thursday to legislators.

Officials have said a primary aim of invoking the Emergencies Act is to stifle funding to the demonstrators in Ottawa.
"These illegal blockades are being heavily supported by individuals in the United States and from elsewhere around the world," Trudeau said. "We see that roughly half of the funding that is flowing to the barricaders here is coming from the United States. The goal of all measures, including financial measures in the Emergencies Act, is to deal with the current threat only, and to get the situation fully under control."

The act, passed in 1988 and never before invoked, can temporarily suspend citizens' rights to free movement or assembly. It can also provide for the use of the military, but Trudeau has said this would not be necessary.