Horns blared across Ottawa on Friday as demonstrators, many of them truckers, poured into the Canadian capital ahead of a planned protest on Saturday against cross-border vaccine mandates and beyond.
Police warned that the crowd, expected to eventually number in the thousands, had a mix of peaceful and violent aims. Chief Peter Sloly said so far demonstrations had been “peaceful and uneventful,” but warned the situation was “unique, fluid, risky and significant” and risked “lone-wolf individuals who may insert themselves into the mix for various reasons.”
