Adam: Ottawa won't need the Emergencies Act this weekend

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.

'Scarred Ottawa', 'mob' 'held hostage' 🤣🤣 Sounds like someone needs to stop writing and get therapy for their paranoid delusions. How does the editor of any publication allow such sloppy and fear based opinions.

A mob? You call yourself a journalist?.did you learn in school words matter? Groups of fellow Canadians expressing their displeasure in a peaceful manner is not a MOB. DO BETTER

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