> The police couldn't touch the protest for weeks not because of inaction but because your right to protest is a human right. They required the national emergen

> The police couldn't touch the protest for weeks not because of inaction but because your right to protest is a human right. They required the national emergency to remove our right to protest in order to label the protest illegal. This is wholly incorrect. The Ottawa Police made a huge error at the beginning of the occupation, allowing the occupiers to entrench themselves in the city. Further disagreements in the police force and municipality extended the situation that all levels of government agreed was illegal from day 1. This wasn't a protest, it was an illegal occupation.