Ottawa's top cop backed police defunding

Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly, who is directing the pressure tactics used against the truck protest, has a long record as an activist within the Ottawa Police Department.

When he was lobbying for the top cop job in 2016, Sloly favored a defund-the-police approach. His argument was that a "reactive" law enforcement model is inefficient and expensive. This speech capped his 27-year career with Ottawa police. Sloly, a Jamaican-Canadian, had long pressed for improved ethnic relations by the police department.

“Until policing stops being focused and driven on that reactive enforcement model, it will continue to be exponentially costly,” Sloly said in the January 2016 speech.

Drastic change is necessary, Sloly argued. “I’ve never seen policing at this low a point in terms of public trust and legitimacy. I feel there’s a crisis in the offing, not just here but right across North America.”

The Toronto Star reported that Sloly favored cutting back on police officers as part of his modernization plan.

Sloly's comments were criticized by the Toronto Police Association and viewed as a political attack in his quest for the top slot. He was passed over and resigned from the force. But in 2019, Sloly was appointed to the chief's role by the Police Services Board to replace another person forced out as a result of political infighting.  

As chief, Sloly has not urged that his department's budget be cut. Yet, there appear to be no news accounts showing that he has publicly renounced his activist "defund" stance.

Star: Sloly urges major defunding of cop budget
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/01/18/deputy-chief-peter-sloly-pushes-for-change-amid-low-point-and-looming-crisis.html

Star: Deputy chief quits after defund talk
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/02/10/peter-sloly-resigns-as-deputy-toronto-police-chief-after-bombshell-interview.html

Global News: Sloly named Ottawa's top cop
https://globalnews.ca/news/5813872/peter-sloly-named-ottawa-police-chief

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NEWS of the WORLD completely upholds the right of Chief Sloly to protest governmental decisions. Sloly has as much right as any Canadian to oppose prevailing political opinion.

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U.S. truck protests need to start ASAP

The U.S. truck protest against covid mandates is scheduled for March. That's much too late to take advantage of the current interest in truck protests.

The time for action is ASAP! Which means within days, the convoy toward D.C. should begin. Trucker protesters simply need to take the optimistic view that their needs will be met by organizers. Organizers need to take the same view.

By March, there may not be much left to protest, thus permitting the tinhorn dictators to have establihed the outrageous principle that the government owns your body.

By Andrew Duffy
Ottawa Citizen
Feb 05, 2022

Truckers occupying downtown Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates have moved quickly to secure new funding after the popular GoFundMe platform closed off access to $10 million in donations.

The truckers have adopted GiveSendGo as their new fundraising platform.

The organization bills itself as the leader in Christian fundraising, but it has also hosted fundraising efforts conducted on behalf of the Proud Boys, a [purportedly] neo-fascist group deemed a terrorist organization by the Canadian government [after top U.S. Democrats and other leftists denounced the group for its role in the Jan. 6 protest in Washington, D.C.].

On the new platform, the truckers had already raised $1.3 million towards a $16 million goal by Saturday afternoon.

GiveSendGo was having trouble handling the sudden traffic on its website, which often displayed a server error Saturday. “We know the site is slow,” the company said on social media. “We are working on it! All hands on deck.”

Donations were coming in fast late Saturday morning at more than $70,000 an hour.

In a video on the GiveSendGo website, Tamara Lich, a key organizer of the truckers’ protest, said GoFundMe has frozen the bulk of its funds after releasing $1 million.

Lich said the truckers have decided to team with GiveSendGo “which will enable us to get donations into the hands of the truckers much, much quicker while everyone gets the rest of this stuff sorted out.”

“We plan to be here for the long haul – as long as it takes to ensure that that your rights and freedoms are restored,” Lich said in a statement recorded Friday in downtown Ottawa.

According to the website, the donations will be used to offset the costs of fuel, food and lodging.

That fun-loving bunch of Nazis! How dare they protest!

On the one hand, the protesters shouldn't be having fun, says the mayor.

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On the other hand, they're a bunch of Nazis, says the prime minister.

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At least one U.S. lawmaker takes a stand against mandatory vaccination.

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Isn't it curious how top Canadian officials disparage the truckers, instead of saying, "We understand their feelings and point of view, though we don't agree. All Canadian citizens should be treated by their government with respect."

Hysteria among the elite:FB nixes U.S. trucker page

Social media giant takes stand against right to protest https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/facebook-removes-page-of-truckers-against-vax-mandates/

GoFundMe tried to hijack $9M sent to truckers

Sniveling cop-out

Basic go-to tactic governments and elite use to suppress dissent: Make wild claims of racism (Trudeau), violence and "lawbreaking" (unnamed police officials) and then cut off electronic financial transactions.

That trend is not a very good advertisement for the cashless society being pushed by governments, banks and the Davos "reset" crowd.