'Tooting a horn is not an expression of any great thought I'm aware of,' the judge said. The so-called 'freedom convoy' has been stationed in Ottawa for more than a week now.
GoFundMe is returning donations towards Canada's "Freedom Convoy," a group of truckers protesting the government's vaccine mandates for cross-border travel. Nearly $8 million donated will be refunded or redirected to charities.that forbids truckers parked on city streets in downtown Ottawa from constantly honking their horns.
"Tooting a horn is not an expression of any great thought I'm aware of," Ontario Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean said during court proceedings,McLean said he had heard sufficient evidence that the incessant honking from the convoy in protest of government vaccine mandates is impinging on Ottawa residents' right for "quiet, if we can use that term," which he said trumped the trucker's right to protest.
McLean emphasized that his injunction was temporary because a "myriad of people" might wish to be heard before the court on the issue. Paul Champ, a lawyer for a 21-year-old public servant named Zexi Li, sought an injunction that would prohibit anyone in the ongoing Freedom Convoy protest from sounding their horns while near downtown. The Freedom Convoy has remained in Ottawa for more than a week.Protesters of the Freedom convoy gather near the parliament hill as truckers continue to protest in Ottawa, Canada on February 7, 2022.
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