Trucker protests: Ottawa councillor calls demonstration occupying city an ‘insurrection’

Ottawa City Councillor Diane Deans told a press conference on Saturday that the trucker protests against vaccine mandates, occupying the city for eight days now, is comparable to an “insurrection,” adding that the “city is under siege.”

• Trucker convoy: Ottawa ‘under siege’ amid ‘nation-wide insurrection,’ officials say