A lawyer for the organizers of the truckers’ protest in Ottawa says the police seem to be preparing to remove the protesters by force, after the police started to distribute a notice telling the protesters to go home or they that would otherwise face criminal charges. The notice comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 14 invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with the ongoing protests in the capital. The Act gives authorities additional powers, such as providing legal tools to cut off funding to the protesters or freezing the corporate accounts of companies whose trucks are used in any blockades and removing their insurance. “You must leave the area now. Anyone blocking streets, or assisting others in the blocking streets, are committing a criminal offence and you may be arrested. You must immediately cease further unlawful activity or you will face charges,” the Ottawa Police Services said in the notice issued on …
Ottawa Police’s Notice Threatening Legal Charges to Protesters Is Different From Fed’s Proclamation: Lawyer
February 16, 2022
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