But we sure needed it a year ago, regardless of what the commission looking into the trucker protest finally concludes.
We remember a siege during which unruly protesters paralyzed downtown, harassed residents and shut down businesses, while their fellow travellers choked our borders, creating such chaos that, for a while, Canada became something of a global laughingstock. On this anniversary, there is only regret that the convoy ever came to town, and that the city had to suffer through it.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
The protest also exposed deep divisions within the Ottawa police and in the process, we lost a reformist police chief. You’d expect that on such an anniversary, protesters would swarm our streets, but it says something that there’s no real effort to stage a big encore. It isn’t for want of trying. An earlier trucker reunion planned for this weekend fizzled in the face of police resolve to prevent any such thing. Now Chief Eric Stubbs says a few hundred people may, or may not, show up for an anniversary protest, butThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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