WATSON IGNORED PARLIAMENTARY PROTECTIVE SERVICE DURING CONVOY

   Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson’s office would not return a call from the Parliamentary Protective Service during the height of the Freedom Convoy, its acting director told a committee Thursday evening.
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   Larry Brookson, the acting director of the service, told members of Parliament and senators during a joint committee hearing that he attempted to reach out to Watson and Ottawa’s city manager during the protests that occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks in February.
   Despite his concerns, he said that the city and Ottawa police granted protesters permission to drive and park on the street, which faces Parliament but is not governed by parliamentary security.
   “The streets would’ve been blocked” if he had been in charge, he said. “There would’ve been no vehicles permitted to come onto Wellington Street.”