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Convoy organizers threaten to stay ‘for as long as it takes’ to eliminate vaccine COVID mandates

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Ottawa police will soon step up enforcement of city bylaws as officers are redeployed from the parliamentary precinct to protect communities from protesters who oppose COVID-19 restrictions, the city's police board chair said today.

OTTAWA — The head of the Ottawa police says "all options are on the table" when it comes to ending an ongoing — and potentially resurging — anti-vaccine mandate protest that some local councillors are now calling an "occupation" of the capital city.

The ‘freedom convoy’ has moved beyond anti-vax messages into something much more sinister.

Ottawa police face mounting pressure to take stronger action against the protest of COVID-19 measures that has taken over the capital city, while

Convoy organizers threaten to stay ‘for as long as it takes’ to eliminate vaccine COVID mandates

At a time when the nation should be fighting against structural violence, resources and attention are being given to a cause that doesn’t deserve it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will neither meet with nor be intimidated by the convoy of Canadians he says spent the last few days harassing local businesses, waving Nazi flags and stealing food from the homeless.

The most rabid of the far-right elements who ran amuck in downtown Ottawa last weekend have encamped themselves in Parliament’s environs and are vowing not to disperse until their demands are met.