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‘Ungovernable’: Mendicino says it was near-impossible to enforce law amid convoy – National | Globalnews.ca:

It became “virtually impossible” to enforce the law in downtown
Ottawa during the “Freedom Convoy” protests, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says.

This was part of what fuelled the government’s decision to invoke the
controversial Emergencies Act in order to clear out the protesters
earlier this year, Mendicino told the inquiry tasked with probing that
decision on Tuesday.

“In ultimately forming the opinion that we
needed to invoke the Emergencies Act, one of my main concerns was the
inability to enforce the law adjacent to critical infrastructure. That
would have included Parliament,” he said.

“The situation on the ground…it was on the brink of being completely ungovernable, if not already.”