City manager Steve Kanellakos told an inquiry investigating the feds’ use of emergency powers that police were in charge of the response to the convoy, and the city followed the force’s lead throughout. The commission is expected to hear testimony from Watson and other top Ottawa officials this week, starting with Kanellakos. Kanellakos said the city shared information with Ottawa police and based its planning and response on the intelligence and threat assessment it received from police. “The only information we could rely on was from Ottawa police, in terms of reliable information at that time,” said Kanellakos. Kanellakos said that officials knew that a plan put together by city officials and convoy organizers to move “Freedom Convoy” protesters’ semi trucks out of residential neighbourhoods and onto the street in front of Parliament Hill was not going to end the protest.

Source: thestar October 17, 2022 14:55 UTC