>Council condemns demonstration and asks for additional support >February 7, 2022 >Council Updates >At today’s special Council meeting(link is external), several motions were passed to deal with the ongoing demonstration in Ottawa. They included: >- Calling on both the Government of Ontario and the Government of Canada to provide all necessary financial and logistical supports required to bring the protest to a peaceful end and allow the City of Ottawa to return to normal. How about just providing your evidence that the pandemic is real? >- Condemning the racism, antisemitism and discrimination respectively experienced by the Black, Jewish, Muslim, racialized and members of the two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex (2SLGBTQI+) communities. Pushing their trans-humanist ideologies. >- Requiring staff to advise Council on the status of enforcement activities related to the demonstration, including number of vehicles towed, and numbers and nature of tickets issued. >- Removing vehicles illegally parked in residential areas and addressing ongoing impacts of continued by-law violations by these individuals. Tickets for bylaw violations are all they have to claim the situation is bad because they have no real crimes to deal with, so they want to use the numbers to exaggerate the problem. >- Petitioning the federal government to assume responsibility for public safety and security within the Parliamentary Precinct and to commit to an increased level of support of the Ottawa Police Service. They want to use the situation to gain more authoritarian control. >- Asking for an independent evaluation of the response to the demonstration. Meaning, putting some of their own people in charge of the evaluation. >- Requesting both the provincial and federal governments fund supports for Ottawa businesses, employees and community social support agencies impacted by the protest. Another means to draw in provincial and federal government funding to be used for other purposes. >- Seeking increases to noise, idling, use and care of roads and open-air fire by-law set fines to $1,000. More funding, using ridiculous excuses. Let's not forget that the open-air Terry Fox flame was always burning until this all started. >- Amending the existing idling by-law to allow idling in occupied vehicles only when the temperature outside is less than -15 C including the windchill within the protest area. The absurdity of this is over the top. Sitting in a metal box with no heat at -15 C temperatures is torture. >- Holding daily media availabilities for the duration of the truck convoy demonstrations. In order to be able to feed them the daily narrative they want in the MSM. >- Seeking permission from the Province to recover demonstration-related policing costs from any persons deemed responsible for such costs. Trying to seek further money from the protesters, who they want to blame for this whole problem while completely ignoring the cause of it and those responsible. >Public Inquiries >311@ottawa.ca(link sends e-mail) >311 >https://ottawa.ca >Media Inquiries >medias@ottawa.ca(link sends e-mail) >613-580-2450 >https://ottawa.ca None of these links take you anywhere that you can actually contact them. They're only there for show. https://ottawa.ca/en/news/council-condemns-demonstration-and-asks-additional-support