Protesters, numbering several hundred, sang the national anthem, chanted \u0022freedom\u0022 and waved Canadian flags and placards on Parliament Hill.
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A corps of officers from the Ottawa Police Service, Ottawa By-law Services, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Parliamentary Protective Service kept a watchful eye on Saturday’s protest anniversary.Mathieu Venne, a landscaper from Val-des-Monts, Que., said, “I was right here,” as the protest began a year earlier and on Saturday took a microphone to speak on Parliament Hill.Article content
“It’s about regrouping, reuniting, it’s about honouring the people that started all of this,” Venne said, even if some of those people now face criminal charges. “For now it’s been stopped, for now it’s been dropped,” Venne said. “It doesn’t mean that tomorrow morning they can’t get up and suddenly say, ‘OK, we’re bringing it back in…’
There would be zero-tolerance for hate crimes, Troster said, and residents should report any harassment. The city’s 311 line was also “staffed up.” Police were seen breaking up a scuffle between a protester and a lone counter-protester on Wellington Street. Late Saturday afternoon, a Postmedia photographer witnessed the apparent arrest of two protesters on Parliament Hill following a dispute.Article content
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