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Protesters connected to assemble and demonstrate against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in Canada's capital letter on Feb. 6, marking the one week anniversary of the so-called "occupation."

"We are on day viii of this occupation. Our city is under siege. What nosotros're seeing is bigger than just a City of Ottawa problem. This is a nationwide insurrection. This is madness. We need a concrete plan to put an terminate to this," said the chair of the board, Ottawa City Council member Diane Deans, at the commencement of the about two-hour-long virtual discussion.

Ottawa police principal Peter Sloly agreed with her portrayal of the situation, maxim that local constabulary enforcement was "never intended to deal with a city under siege," and decried the lack of resources – and legal potency – to disperse the protestation.

At i point, Deans wondered whether the metropolis had legal grounds to declare an unlawful assembly and and then a riot, in club to conduct mass arrests, instead of pursuing "one criminal charge at a time."

"There are then many people out at that place engaged in a broader human activity of… mayhem, that we need to be able to bring it all under control," she said.

"We can't allow this kind of terrorism in our community to continue this manner."

Yes, in accord with the narrative laid down from Trudeau'southward twitter feed, the establishment is now calling protesting truckers - terrorists!

And every bit a result of all that hysteria, The Epoch Times reports that Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has declared a state of emergency due to the trucker protest that continues in the city'due south downtown cadre.

In a brief statement, the city said the conclusion reflects the "serious danger and threat to the safe and security of residents posed past the ongoing demonstrations and highlights the need for back up from other jurisdictions and levels of government. "

"It too provides greater flexibility inside the municipal assistants to enable the City of Ottawa to manage business continuity for essential services for its residents and enables a more than flexible procurement process, which could help purchase equipment required by frontline workers and first responders," the metropolis said in its statement.

Protest organizers say their demonstration is peaceful... apart from this terrible, atrocious, horrific, terroristic set on on a adept, honest, local denizen who was just trying to cross the road...

I tin't believe the drivers are assaulting counterprotesters. This is domestic terrorism. movie.twitter.com/fGiAfVNP3A

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 6, 2022

The protest started equally a demonstration by truckers against the federal government's requirement for cross-border truck drivers to be vaccinated, but has since evolved into a large motility joined by people from beyond Canada to oppose different COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. Vehicle convoys came to Ottawa on Jan. 29, and many have stayed in the urban center, with trucks and other vehicles parked by Parliament Hill. Many protesters say they will remain until the mandates are lifted.

Trucks are parked in downtown Ottawa as demonstrators continue to protest COVID-xix mandates and restrictions on Feb. ii, 2022. (Jonathan Ren/The Epoch Times)

Sounds of honking horns can exist heard throughout the day in the Parliament Loma expanse, which residents are complaining most.

Protestation organizer Benjamin Dichter says people who are unhappy almost the honking should be contacting Prime Government minister Justin Trudeau and ask him to lift COVID-xix mandates.

"To anybody who is annoyed, nosotros apologize. Delight call Justin Trudeau, his function, and get these mandates lifted, and we're out of here," Dichter said at a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 6.

Trudeau has refused to see with the protesters.

Tom Quiggin, who is helping the organizers with "protective intelligence," said many people across Canada have lost their jobs, homes, and businesses equally a result of COVID-19 mandates and restrictions, and they accept grievances too, which is why they are protesting in the nation's capital.

"Let's call back most of Ottawa is government, huge number of civil servants here. They oasis't missed a paycheque. They've got pay raises, some of them have got back pay, most of them are working from home. Some of them who tin can't work from habitation are but doing nothing and even so getting paid," Quiggin said at the printing conference.

"So yes, it'southward unfortunate that they feel bad nigh the horns, yes, it's unfortunate they experience bad near the disruption, but the rest of the country is hurting."

Daniel Bulford, a old RCMP officer who quit the force because of its vaccine mandate and is at present helping the protest organizers, said his children don't want to play hockey anymore considering of the position his family has taken on vaccine issues, as they feel "isolated and alienated."

"The people dealing with the honking, they're not the merely ones that are dealing with the impact of all these mandates," Bulford said at the press briefing.

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