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applegrove

(123,130 posts)
3. I don't think that stopped police action. I think it was the big rig
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 10:07 PM
Feb 2022

tow trucks in Ottawa being threatened if they helped the police. Those are million dollar machines. One cannot afford to be boycotted when you own one or a fleet of those. When the ambassador Bridge was emptied they had US big rig tow trucks. I don't understand why Sloyly had to go. Seems to me nobody has died and that is a great outcome. Trudeau's Emergency Law allows police to force tow trucks to help. This was bigger than one local chief. Don't forget Ottawa Police have been getting false calls from all over North America the whole time. I could be wrong but don't see it as a failure. How could you plan for something like this. We've had trucker demonstrations on Parliament Hill before and they always went home pronto. Now social media makes Karen Convoy organizers more nimble. They have money. Yes they can get Intel from sympathizers on the inside. These are all things we know now that we didn't know a month ago. I could be wrong. I just have felt relief in the last few days that it is ending safely. Keep in mind that there are 180,000 truck drivers in Canada so this was a tiny, tiny, minority.

Bev54

(11,917 posts)
5. I understand why Sloyly had to go. He should never have allowed the trucks into the city
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 10:12 PM
Feb 2022

centre to begin with. He did not stop the refueling and supplies coming in when he was having pressers saying they were and the cameras were showing the jerry cans being walked right in front of the police and them doing nothing. He could have stopped the supplies until more police could come in, he was provided with a considerable amount of RCMP but did not have any kind of plan.

Bev54

(11,917 posts)
4. I don't think so with the RCMP, if there was any complicity it would have
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 10:08 PM
Feb 2022

been with the Ottawa police.

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