Ottawa is in a state of emergency as the trucker protest continues to paralyze parts of the nation鈥檚 capital, while frustrated downtown residents were granted an injunction to stop the incessant truck horns.
On Monday, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson sent letters to Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying the protest had turned into a 鈥渟iege of our downtown area,鈥 and asked the provincial and federal governments for an 鈥渋mmediate injection of additional officers.鈥
鈥淕iven the scope and scale of the armada of large trucks that are now occupying our downtown core, we are writing to you today to ask that you work to help the City secure 1,800 officers to quell the insurrection that the Ottawa Police Service is not able to contain,鈥 Watson wrote in the letter.
As part of the 1,800 officers Watson is requesting, he鈥檚 looking for 1,000 regular officers, 600 public order officers, 100 investigative officers and 100 civilian staff, in addition to 鈥渁ll supporting resources.鈥
鈥淲e must do everything in our power to take back the streets of Ottawa and our parliamentary precinct, from the criminal activity and hooliganism that has transpired over the last nine days,鈥 Watson wrote.
Speaking in-person during an emergency debate on the protests late Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government is ready to provide more support for Ottawa police.
鈥淲e鈥檙e convening a table with the relevant federal and municipal parties to further strengthen our response,鈥 he said. 鈥淭he federal government will be there with whatever resources the province and the city need in this situation.鈥
Ottawa city council also voted on Monday to ask the province to bring legislation that would allow the government to charge the protesters for the costs of the demonstrations. Police in Ottawa estimate the costs are as high as $2.2 million per day in policing the protests.
Watson told CTV鈥檚 Your Morning on Monday that the state of emergency declared on Sunday offers 鈥渕ore flexibility鈥 for city staff to get equipment and supplies without going through extra processes.
鈥淚t helps administration do its job, and helps the police do their job,鈥 Watson said, adding that he was happy to see the police be more 鈥減roactive鈥 Sunday night. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not interested in making those people comfortable who are illegally blocking city streets.鈥
鈥淭his group says they鈥檙e all about freedom and against lockdowns, well they have created a lockdown in our downtown core,鈥 Watson said. 鈥淥ur number one priority is to end this thing peacefully.鈥
The federal government, meanwhile, has proposed a trilateral meeting with provincial and municipal governments to lay out plans to end the protest, as the truckers continue to dig in.
鈥淧eople in Ottawa have got to get their lives back, we want to help do that,鈥 Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told CTV News鈥 Power Play. 鈥淭he convoy should go home, we should see a peaceful resolution to this.鈥
One of downtown Ottawa residents鈥 major complaints, the incessant honking, spurred the filing on Friday of a $9.8 million class-action proposed lawsuit on their behalf.
The residents asked for an injunction to be issued to prevent truckers parked on the city streets from honking all day and night. Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean heard the arguments Monday afternoon and , which orders the immediate end to the incessant honking from the truckers.
Christine Johnson, a lawyer with Champ and Associates and co-counsel in the matter, told CTV NewsChannel鈥檚 Power Play that anyone caught violating this injunction could be held in contempt and face stiffer penalties than a simple bylaw infraction.
鈥淲e鈥檙e very happy with this win today,鈥 Johnson said. 鈥淲e hope that it will bring some reprieve to the citizens of downtown Ottawa.鈥
Lead plaintiff in the class action suit, Zexi Li, described the current living situation for residents in downtown Ottawa as 鈥渦nbearable.鈥
鈥淭here are people who have had to evacuate their homes because they can't stand the noise because it is literally, quite literally, torturous to us,鈥 Li told CTV News Channel on Monday. 鈥淎nd we are not going to stay quiet anymore because people need to understand the real damage this is doing to real people.鈥
Li said she took action because she wanted her community to be heard, and that while she 鈥渦nderstands that not everyone is a bad actor鈥 in the convoy, their occupation of the streets is 鈥渃reating the environment for hate, violence and a general sense of unsafety [sic] and fear to accumulate.鈥
Johnson said Li has suffered online abuse because of the lawsuit.
鈥淲hile we鈥檝e had an outpouring of support from many in the community, across the country, both towards our law firm and our very brave client we represent, she鈥檚 had also received a lot of vile hatred both directed at her,鈥 Johnson said.
鈥淚t takes a lot of courage, as you can imagine, for a young woman to stand up on behalf of her neighbours 鈥 It鈥檚 been stressful. It鈥檚 been overwhelming and I think she felt as though it was the right thing to do.鈥
Speaking directly to the 鈥淔reedom Convoy,鈥 Li acknowledged they have every right to protest, but said their actions are hurting businesses, residents, animals and children.
鈥淭here is a way to do a protest and this, quite frankly, is not it,鈥 she said. 鈥淚 have witnessed countless violations of the law, and a lot of individuals just act with utter impunity and with no respect to the residents.鈥
Paul Champ, an Ottawa lawyer who is representing Li and the other residents in the class-action suit, told CTV News Channel Monday that it is really focused on the trucks鈥 air horns.
鈥淥n the ground it鈥檚 about 100 decibels, and in your apartment you鈥檙e looking at 95 to 90 decibels which is basically like having a lawn mower running in your living room all day,鈥 Champ explained. 鈥淚t鈥檚 torture for the downtown residents in Ottawa.鈥
Champ said the lawsuit centres on the concept of 鈥減rivate nuisance,鈥 in which others鈥 actions affect the complainants鈥 ability to enjoy and use their private property.
鈥淭here is precedence on this that for loud noise going for prolonged periods in a day, an individual can get several hundred dollars per day of sound and that鈥檚 what we鈥檙e seeking on behalf of the downtown residents,鈥 he said.
Trudeau expressed empathy for the people of Ottawa during Monday鈥檚 emergency debate.
鈥淭he people of Ottawa don鈥檛 deserve to be harassed in their own neighbourhoods, they don鈥檛 deserve tobe confronted by the inherent violence of a swastika flying on a street corner or a confederate flag,鈥 he said.
Speaking with CTV News Ottawa on Monday evening, Sloly said demonstrators have been quick to adapt policing measures in the city.
"What was happening during the course of the day is some of the protesters were deliberately filling jerrycans with water, literally drinking out of them to show the police that they weren't gasoline," Sloly said. "Meanwhile, they were carrying gasoline in other containers that would have been carrying water."
Sloly also said officers have been swarmed while trying to make arrests.
"Our officers were surrounded by over 100 demonstrators," he said. "A near-riot broke out within minutes of being on the air here, to do what we've been saying we doing: enforcing and reducing the fuel supply, interdicting the gasoline going in there鈥攁t great risk in every single encounter."
In a police briefing Monday afternoon, Ottawa Police Service Chief Peter Sloly said that he too is asking for additional police resources to contain to the protests.
Since officers began 鈥渟urge and contain鈥 procedures regarding the protest, there have been 20 criminal arrests and charges of individuals connected to the convoy, and more than 500 tickets issued, Sloly added.
Sloly said police 鈥渨ent after the funding,鈥 which led to GoFundMe removing its online fundraiser for the so-called 鈥淔reedom Convoy.鈥
鈥淭here are other funding avenues that we continue to aggressively go after through intelligence information, co-ordination with financial institutions and all three levels of government,鈥 he said.
Promising to be 鈥渞elentless,鈥 Sloly said the police are also going after the fuel deliveries allowing the protesters to stay in place on city streets, citing the operation Sunday night that saw a heavily armed police force seize more than 3,000 litres of fuel, according to protesters.
However, pictures and video on the ground in Ottawa Monday show many , freely walking among parked vehicles and on the street without being stopped or questioned by police.
Every time the police 鈥渒nock something down鈥 in relation to the convoy, there are 鈥渁ttempts for it to pop up in four or five other locations,鈥 Sloly said.
鈥淲e are stretched to the limit,鈥 he continued, adding that 鈥渆very available鈥 officer has been working over the past four days and that the service has cancelled time off.
鈥淪ome officers are on their 14th day straight of 12 hours in a row,鈥 Sloly said. 鈥淲e have to end this demonstration, we cannot do it alone鈥. our people are on the breaking point.鈥
During a question-and-answer segment after the briefing, Sloly replied to allegations that the protesters鈥 intentions were well known before arriving to the capital, and that police seemed unable to handle the convoy.
鈥淭his is an unprecedented protest, never seen in Canada,鈥 Sloly said. 鈥淭here were certainly indications [that] this would be a demonstration, all of our negotiations with the core convoy stated they would be here on Friday and they would leave on Sunday.鈥
Sloly said those three-day negotiations were 鈥渨ell in place鈥 days before the convoy arrived.
鈥淲hile there were fringe elements that said everything from insurrection through to negotiation, our core negotiations were a demonstration for three days in the nation's capital and the return of those vehicles and demonstrators to the parts of Canada that they came from, that is what we planned for, that is what we executed,鈥 he continued. 鈥淭here was a success around containing that as it turned into more than a demonstration, [and] we have pivoted and we pivoted immediately. We need more resources to deal with an occupation.鈥
Despite Sloly鈥檚 remarks, a 鈥渕emorandum of understanding鈥 prepared ahead of the truckers鈥 convoy protest converging on Ottawa vowed the protest would persist until all mandates are lifted.
The trucker convoy protest has been described as a 鈥渟iege鈥 an 鈥渙ccupation鈥 and 鈥渙ut of control鈥 by , with an estimated 5,000 people and 1,000 trucks and personal vehicles joining the protest this weekend, compared to the estimated 3,000 trucks and up to 15,000 protesters the weekend before.
Despite their more than $10-million fundraiser being removed from GoFundMe, the truckers are still fundraising through other online platforms, including bitcoin wallets.
Among the other fundraising measures the 鈥淔reedom Convoy鈥 has deployed is GiveSendGo, described at a free, Christian crowdfunding site, which has raised more than US$5 million as of Monday afternoon.
In a statement, GiveSendGo said the company has been in contact with the convoy organizers and 鈥渉as received full assurance that all funds raised will go to provide humanitarian aid and legal support for the peaceful truckers and their families as they stand for freedom.鈥
The convoy fundraiser is already GiveSendGo鈥檚 highest grossing campaign, according to the statement.
While Ottawa has been ground zero for the protesters, other smaller demonstrations have emerged across the country in recent days.
The latest of which is in Windsor, Ont.,where protesters have blocked two of the three lanes on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor to Detroit.
The Canada Border Services Agency confirmed a demonstration taking place along the border bridge, indicating that those entering Canada are facing a delay of about one hour.
With files from The Canadian Press
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