The “colossal human\u002Drights failure” of police, officials and all three levels of government in response to last year’s convoy occupation in Ottawa was evident…
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The commission, a program of the Centretown Community Health Centre, remained neutral on the convoy, and its mandate did not include debate about vaccine or mask mandates, public health protocols or the invocation by the federal government of the Emergencies Act. The level of abandonment that residents and others faced was “shocking,” she added. “And in light of the resources of the city, the province and the nation, in light of the sophisticated democracy we call ourselves, the simplest things weren’t done.”
“One of the stories here is a story that’s not actually unique to this situation,” said Farha on Monday, “which is that in Canada, some human rights seem to matter more than other human rights. So what we saw during the occupation was a bending-over backward by police and by government officials to ensure that the right to protest, the right to free expression, was upheld.
The report also takes a swipe at convoy organizers’ claims that there was diversity among participants and supporters, suggesting that, while “true to a limited extent, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of people involved in the protests were white males.”Article content The report’s summary is broken into five parts that ultimately constitute the its main findings: that the convoy was an occupation as opposed to a conventional protest; that it was violent; that people were abandoned; that, absent help from officials, the community mobilized to help those in need; and that the convoy also had supporters who, after two years of feeling ostracized because of their opposition to certain public health protocols, welcomed the convoy’s arrival and message.
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