OTTAWA—Crowds of people gathered in Ottawa on Canada Day to call for freedoms as police continued to maintain a heavy presence, at times confronting some of the protesters.
Police had set up three scanning areas to check people as they entered the precinct of Parliament Hill, where a rally was planned to protest the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. But due to the delays caused by the screening process, rally organizers decided to move the equipment for the event closer to the fence, as the vast majority of the protesters were waiting on the other side.
