Thread by @HeatherMoAndCo

As I make my way through the #EmergenciesActInquiry (& I strongly encourage everyone to listen to it themselves rather than relying on spin in #cdnmedia reports), a few things stand out.

Bylaw officers were intimidated & didn’t feel safe to do their jobs re #FreeDumbConvoy 1/

2.Tow truck companies were unwilling to risk their safety or their business & vehicles by towing the trucks, aside from tow operators who refused b/c they bought into propaganda of the occupation. (CTV’s reporting leaves out the lack of safety reasons, highlights the “sympathy”)

3. But what is most troubling perhaps, is the intelligence failures on the part of @OttawaPolice. I can’t imagine it was out of incompetence, I also can’t imagine it was because INSET, CSIS, FINTRAC didn’t provide #OPS with intel. #EmergenciesActInquiry

Did Ottawa authorities honestly think this op was going to last a weekend? I posted this🧵on Jan 22/22. If I knew this was an op with very serious implications behind it, surely authorities privy to high level intel should’ve known?

https://twitter.com/heathermoandco/status/1485037628999278592?s=21

#EmergenciesActInquiry

5. The other glaring standout is the abject failure of #DougFord’s gov’t to act. Even when requested by Ottawa’s city manager. He was told the province wouldn’t “get involved, politically”. It’s a stunning dereliction of duty for ENTIRELY political reason. #EmergenciesActInquiry

6. Ottawa’s city manager, Steve Kanellakos, wanted the province to declare a state of emergency & thus use those powers to put pressure on the occupiers. Ford’s gov’t refused saying it was a law enforcement issue. Yet #OPP was another point of failure to act. #EmergenciesAct