One day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act to quell the trucker protest, the police chief of the nation’s capital …
One day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act to quell the trucker protest, the police chief of the nation’s capital city has resigned. Sources told CBC News that Peter Sloly was preparing to announce his resignation publicly amid the Ottawa police force’s inability to handle the protest, which has entered its 19th day. The police chief has been accused of bullying and volatile behavior that has undermined his relationship with senior leadership, CBC reported. On Monday, Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act for the first time since his father, Pierre Trudeau, did it half a century ago. Explaining the extraordinary move, Trudeau said “it is clear that there are serious challenges to law enforcement’s ability to effectively enforce the law.” Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Monday that police need to begin using their broad authority under the Emergencies Act, which allows the government to ban the blockades and tow away trucks. “We need law enforcement to take the reins, to utilize the Emergencies Act and to enforce,” he said after Trudeau invoked the act. “We have given new powers to police and we need them to do the job now.
