Ottawa will be increasing police presence downtown this weekend, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy, Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs said.
The police will not be allowing any vehicle-based protests in the city, and Stubbs said the police have a “scalable” plan depending on how many protesters potentially arrive in the city.
Stubbs made the comments ahead of a Jan. 23 meeting of the Ottawa Police Services Board. He said police “will be ready” and that the ultimate goal of “all this planning and preparing is to ensure that what happened last year doesn’t happen this year.”
The city has resources, tow trucks, and staffing plans in place, if a protest were to take place….