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Oct 31 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
G'mornin' to all following the #EmergenciesActInquiry. @TondaMacC and I are back covering it again for the @TorontoStar. Today we have former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly, who will be cross examined by various parties with standing at the inquiry.
Here's our story from Friday on his testimony, in which he was emotional and combative at times, and generally defensive. thestar.com/politics/feder…
For a look at what's coming this week, here's our @OmarMosleh with a preview of the "Freedom Convoy" organizers who are slated to testify. Some of them are facing criminal charges for their roles in the protests. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Finally, you can follow our live coverage here thestar.com/politics/feder…
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Nov 1
Brigitte Belton says she bristled during the occupation when someone credited Tamara Lich with starting the "Freedom Convoy." She calls it a "fake narrative" and wants it known that it was her (Belton) and others who started the protest movement.
Belton says there were issues that "continued and started to magnify" after the convoy arrived in Ottawa. She says she felt she was undermined and new leadership took over the main organization of the "Freedom Convoy."
"It seemed we took a lot of direction from Keith Wilson," a lawyer for some of the convoy protesters. Belton references a video where Wilson told people to come to Ottawa.
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Nov 1
Alrighty, we're back with the PM session of the inquiry. Change of order, we have Steeve "L'Artiss" Charland, spokesperson of les Farfadaas, up now.
He says Farfadaas is a group of men and women that became a protest movement for justice and for the forgotten, people forgotten by the system during the pandemic crisis. Started in 2020, and first event was during St-Jean-Baptiste day that year.
Hard to say how many members, in Gatineau (during the occupation) they found the movement was bigger than they thought. “Thousands of supporters” he says, including people as far away as Texas and Florida.
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Nov 1
City of Ottawa lawyer Alyssa Tomkins questioning Chris Barber now.
Texts showing Barber told city official about communication troubles with police on Feb. 15. This was under the Deal with the city to move trucks out of residential streets. It took a few hours for police cars to get out of the way.
“We got as many trucks as we could that day,” Barber says. Something happened where the deal was off the table, and we were done, he says.
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Nov 1
Ok here we go on Day 14 of the #EmergenciesActInquiry. Starting with Chris Barber, Saskatchewan trucker and convoy organizer. He gets scattered applause as he takes the stand.
Rouleau acknowledges "emotional investment" but asks for everyone to keep it chill.
Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller makes statement to start. Doesn’t want Barber to give answers that could incriminate Barber in a civil or criminal proceeding. He’s being sued and is facing charges.
Lived in Swift current for 47 years, all his life. He’s a long haul trucker, for agriculture equipment across Prairies and into the States. Been in trucking business since he was 18. His company is CB Trucking.
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Oct 28
We're back with Peter Sloly's testimony at the EA inquiry.
They're going over a few things they spoke about earlier to get greater clarity. One was about change of incident commanders without Sloly's knowledge, the other about concern Sloly expressed about somebody going outside chain of command.
Au turning now to Sloly’s statements that the OPS needed more resources.
He pulls up notes of a meeting, where Sloly said they can’t safely remove them without hundreds of officers. Sloly says that’s right.
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Oct 28
Back after morning break with former Chief Sloly. Au takes him to Jan. 31, the Monday after the first weekend.
Jan. 31 Monday, Sloly says it was unlawful protest “clearly” by the Saturday morning. There were fortifications, and an “alarming level of public safety issues writ large,” he says.
They pivoted after the weekend to try and deal with the “occupying period.” He says they needed significant update on the intel threat risk. He also had to get his head around what was going on, Sloly says.
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