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Former"Freedom Convoy" protesters returned to Canada's capital by the hundreds on Saturday to revel on Parliament Hill and denounce COVID-19 mandates as police staged a massive operation to keep the peace and make sure demonstrators actually return home.
"Especially some seniors in Centretown, they were basically held hostage in their homes for two, three and a half weeks. So they're a little bit still traumatized," Huang said.Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said police took"a strong stance" to prevent the kind of prolonged demonstration that gripped Ottawa over the winter.
Speakers recounted the way police removed protesters from the area after their three-week demonstration on Parliament Hill, as hundreds of supporters gathered around the monument to listen. The group also took issue with police erecting a fence around the monument in February after a woman desecrated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by standing on it during the protest. Demonstrators who identified themselves as veterans later dismantled the fence and took it upon themselves to guard the tomb.
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