Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced late Thursday that the RCMP has approved all requests from the Ottawa Police Service to address the convoy that has taken over the city's downtown core. In the statement, Mendicino said that convoy.
Some of the main organizers for the Freedom Convoy spoke to reporters Thursday at a press conference decrying that they had been painted as racists, misogynists…and even terrorists, and that no one from the federal or provincial government had met with them.
The organizers of the Freedom Convoy have indicated they plan to stay in Ottawa until pandemic-related mandates are repealed, but some business owners say the protesters are doing more harm than good.
The organizers of the Freedom Convoy have indicated they plan to stay in Ottawa until pandemic-related mandates are repealed, despite more police officers being deployed downtown in anticipation of increased demonstrations over the weekend.