‘If you were involved in this protest we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges, absolutely.

‘This investigation will go on for months to come. It has many, many different streams, both from a federal financial level, from a provincial licencing level, from a criminal code level, from a municipal breach of court order, breach of court injunction level.

‘It will be a complicated and time-consuming investigation that will go on for a period of time. You have my commitment that that investigation will continue and we will hold people accountable for taking our streets over.’

Steve Bell Acting Chief of Police, Ottawa

A walking, talking example of bluster and bullshit. This odious piece of work has no jurisdiction outside Ottawa, no control over licencing in Ontario or any other provinces and certainly little evidence to support the above statement re court orders and injunctions. The evidence is that the truckers, i.e. those people actually there with trucks, obeyed every court order and injunction.

Rather than actually deal with real crime he will have his officers conduct a "complicated and time-consuming investigation", into what exactly? Illegal parking? Maybe he just doesn't have anything else to do except kowtow to the Mayor, another piece of odium, in the hopes of getting the Chief of Police position.

I support the police in this country, at least in my part of the country, and I suspect that many of those involved in this action didn't want to be there. On the other hand there are many in the provincial and municipal police forces who are little better than thugs.

I have no time for grandstanders, Mr. Bell has had his 15 minutes of fame now back under your rock.