Ottawa Mayor Says Quebec ‘Biker Gang’ Held Intersection During Freedom Convoy Protest
A group of criminal bikers from Quebec were occupying an intersection of downtown Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy protest last winter, the city mayor claimed before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Tuesday.
“My understanding, because I was briefed on this, was that the chief indicated there were criminal elements I believe were involved with the biker gang community in Quebec, and they were blockading the corner of Rideau, Wellington, Sussex, and Colonel By,” Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson told the commission.
“I would not want to send a friend or foe into that red zone or into the area where the Quebec biker group was,” Watson said about enforcing traffic by-laws….