People’s Commission pushes for post-convoy apologies as joint parliamentary committee readies report

Despite nearing the end of its work, the special committee studying the use of the Emergencies Act will add the new Ottawa People’s Commission report to its evidence.

An April 4 report from the Ottawa People's Commission on the Convoy Occupation calls for a municipal human rights framework, saying police and all three levels of government failed and abandoned residents during the winter 2022 protests.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

April 11, 2023

Nearly 14 months after the so-called Freedom Convoy left the streets of Ottawa, a community-led commission says the sense of abandonment and broken trust felt by downtown Ottawa residents still has to be addressed. Its latest report calls for "meaningful apologies," compensa...

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