Tue Oct 11, 2022 – 4:35 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Former Ottawa Police Service (OPS) chief Peter Sloly testified that Freedom Convoy protesters were permitted by the cops to park their vehicles outside Canada’s Parliament in the early days of the protest.
Sloly made the statement late last week at the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Sloly noted that there were “efforts” made to “hold negotiations that were in place to allow for emergency lanes of traffic and to provide for a period of demonstration that would then end.”
Senator Gwen Boniface asked Sloly at which point he felt that the protests went from “a lawful demonstration to an illegal occupation?”
Sloly replied that it was when he saw that “any law was broken” that he considered the protesters to be “unlawful.”
He then noted that there are “many unlawful demonstrations that the police will provide supports to in order to facilitate to the greatest degree the intent of what I believe is our Charter of Rights.”
“And we’ll manage through those unlawful elements even when there are elements that are violent,” Sloly continued.
Sloly added that after trucks
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