Posted on 02/20/2022 6:30:02 AM PST by billorites
Ottawa's mayor says any vehicles seized during the police crackdown on the occupation of the downtown should be sold to cover costs incurred by the city.
"We actually have the ability to confiscate those vehicles and sell them," Mayor Jim Watson said Saturday.
"And I want to see them sold. I don't want the return to these people who've been causing such frustration and angst in our community."
The mayor told CBC News that Ottawa has that power due to the Emergencies Act, which was invoked by the federal government last week.
Watson said he's been pleased by the level of professionalism shown by law enforcement since officers began stepping up their efforts Friday to clear the protest. But he also said he worries about demonstrators who have been "taunting police, being completely irresponsible, and don't want to seem to leave."
Police officers from several forces across the country retook Wellington Street from protesters Saturday, clearing the crowd around the National War Memorial, herding them away from the parliamentary precinct and then down O'Connor Street.
As of Saturday afternoon, 47 more people had been arrested, bringing the overall total to 170. Dozens of vehicles have also been towed.
On Saturday evening, hundreds of protesters pooled at the corner of Bank and Sparks streets, with a line of officers standing firm.
They were eventually moved south, closer to Queen Street. By 10 p.m., the crowd had significantly thinned out, with fencing installed in the area.
"As night falls, it is unsafe to stay," Ottawa police tweeted on Saturday. "Get out of the cold and cease further unlawful activity."
East of downtown, protesters could be seen taking down part of the supply camp they'd set up in a Coventry Road parking lot next to the city-run baseball stadium.
By evening, much of the camp was gone, although some protesters told CBC they planned to regroup elsewhere. Suffering 'absolutely unacceptable'
Meanwhile, police said emergency phone lines had been flooded by calls with complaints about the operations underway downtown.
Zexi Li, an Ottawa resident who helped launch a class-action lawsuit against the convoy organizers, said the weekend's action has been sorely needed as many residents have been distressed for weeks.
"While I think the response is long overdue, it's definitely a relief either way," she said.
The suffering that Ottawa residents have endured has been "absolutely unacceptable," Li said, adding it was downplayed by law enforcement and various levels of government for far too long.
Watson also said Saturday that independent reviews, already planned on both the federal and municipal levels, are needed to see how the protest spiralled out of control and how to stop similar occupations from happening again.
"You can't come to Ottawa anymore and shut down our city for four weeks," he said.
Mein Fuhrer!
(”We actually have the ability to confiscate those vehicles and sell them,” Mayor Jim Watson said Saturday.)
Oh yeah. Brilliant plan.
🙄
It’s the Triumph of his Will.
Tyranny.
The foundation of civil discourse.
The citizens property is not the governments property.
First thing liberals are going to need to learn after the Great Resets off with their heads moment.
Next we will have teach them to stop saying “let them eat cake” to the deplorable underclass.
“It’s the Triumph of his Will.”
Leni would be proud.
But governments can shut down whole countries for months or years with impunity, destroying family businesses and confining people to their quarters. Spit.
Now the Government is a Carjacker , D’oh
Make ‘em pay for the bullets a little later, too.
Hopefully one of things the Truckers have shown people is how depraved the left really is.
The left will go to any level and commit any act of violence to advance their agenda.
All of this over an experimental drug some people refuse to take, the government with the backing of many people used horses to trample on protestors, seized their vehicles, and now want to sell them as punishment.
The Truckers are going be made an example of how the left will come down on you if you dare to protest.
Wait a second everything that’s happening in Ottawa is the Mayor’s doing and not Trudeau’s
Completely peaceful protest by truckers.
Totalitarian rule by Prime Minister and Mayor.
Will a declaration of an emergency here override the US Constitution as easily as it’s being done in Canada?
Oh yes.
CNN and MSNBC, no doubt, fans of her work.
I say dock politicians’ pay to cover the costs - starting with turdesceau. (Tm)
Most Hostile Mayor in Canada
what a jerk
I wonder what will cover his hopeless incompetence and overspending on our dumb LRT system?
Invoked NOT ratified.
The thing that concerns me most is reading the comments section of many of these Canadian news websites. It’s scary to see how many well indoctrinated comrades there are. Then again....looking at the US...
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