A lawyer for the organizers of the truckers’ protest in Ottawa says the police seem to be preparing to remove the protesters by force, after a notice was distributed telling the protesters to go home or they would face criminal charges.
The notice comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 14 invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with the ongoing protests in the capital. The act gives authorities additional powers, such as providing legal tools to cut off funding to the protesters or freezing the corporate accounts of companies whose trucks are used in any blockades and removing their insurance.
