OTTAWA – The City of Ottawa declared a state of emergency during the trucker convoy to spur the provincial and federal governments into action, according to evidence presented at the Emergencies Act commission.
The commission’s mandate is to consider why the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act, which gave it sweeping powers to freeze financial assets, block protests and led to a massive police operation in downtown Ottawa last February.
Ottawa’s city manager Steve Kanellakos testified on Monday the city initially held off on its own declaration of emergency, but after the second weekend of the protest felt it had no choice. Kanellakos said the main goal was to get other levels of government to act.
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