Thread by @ottpeoplescomm

The convoy occupation was a human rights failure. How could a human rights framework have been applied during the convoy occupation? 🧵1/10

Upholding the importance of the right to peaceful protest while recognizing the wide range of human rights of residents, workers and business owners that was at stake in Ottawa and Gatineau for those three weeks. 2/10

Protest rights are essential to a functioning democracy. However, they do not override the rights of people living and working in the area impacted by protest. This is true even in a capital city like Ottawa. 3/10

These are essential rights to equality and non-discrimination of community members: safe housing, health, access to food, livelihood, education and security of the person, and they must be upheld. 4/10

The response to the convoy was a failure by municipal, provincial and federal governments. It is clear human rights were not considered during decision-making. 5/10

Without a solid human rights approach in place, it isn't surprising that during a crisis situation like the convoy occupation, many residents including the most vulnerable were abandoned. 6/10

The mechanisms for ensuring meaningful human rights implementation among all levels of governments have long been ineffective. 7/10

The response to the convoy occupation demonstrated that. There was little evidence of collaborative action by the municipal, provincial and federal governments to ensure the rights of Ottawa residents were being protected. 8/10

Unlike the #POEC, Parliamentary Committee and Ottawa's Auditor General, OPC hasn't examined how operational decisions were made about police deployment, decision-making processes in place municipally, provincially and federally, or the funding and organization of the convoy. 9/10

OPC has remained focused on the impact of the occupation on Ottawa residents.

Read Part I of OPC's report on the impact of the #ConvoyOccupation.

It was an occupation.
It was violent.
People were abandoned.
The community mobilized. 10/10