A senior officer with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) says that after Ottawa police seized fuel from a convoy protest site during February’s demonstration and arrested several people, the trust the convoy organizers had with the police liaison teams was damaged and further negotiations were hindered.
Testifying on Oct. 20 at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act, Craig Abrams, superintendent of operations for the east region of the OPP, said the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) thwarted the negotiation efforts of the police liaison teams (PLT) with convoy organizers to remove some of the fuel at Coventry Road in Ottawa, where the protesters had set up a fuel depot.
