A top Ontario bureaucrat is defending ex-solicitor general Sylvia Jones’s claim that the province sent over 1,500 officers to Ottawa to deal with the “Freedom Convoy,' clarifying that “there was a deployment of over 1,500 officers over a 10-day period.'
The “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa were moved from in front of Parliament Hill by police after blockading the downtown core of Canada’s capital for over three weeks, on Feb. 18, 2022.
While Di Tommaso wasn’t able to speak at the commission, he did provide a witness interview that was submitted as evidence to the commission. Sloly said there was a “miscommunication” from Jones that left the “impression that 1,500 officers from the OPP or from across the province were here in Ottawa on a daily basis.”“I checked with our police officials,” he said. “I said, ‘How many OPP today?’ and they said 50 to 55. The solicitor general kept repeating that there were 1,500 police officers. You’d know if there were 1,500 OPP officers.
“Mr. Stewart also noted that there was a ‘stalemate’ as the occupiers had become entrenched and no significant steps were being put forward to remove them,” the document said. “Mr. Stewart further noted that there was no identifiable leader to this protest movement. Mr. Di Tommaso and Mr. Stewart had a general discussion on how to create incentives for protesters to leave Ottawa.”
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