Emergencies Act inquiry: Ottawa's deputy police chief details ‘worst day of career’ during protests

Officials from the Ottawa Police Service and Ontario Provincial Police testified Thursday about their challenges overcoming the “Freedom Convoy” protests at an inquiry investigating the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act.

Ottawa's acting deputy police chief Patricia Ferguson, who led the city's law enforcement operation during the convoy protests in February, testified that she was in disagreement with then-police chief Peter Sloly about the value of negotiation versus police action.

"Receiving information that crowds were generally eighty per cent law-abiding and they want to follow laws and if you give them an opportunity to have a win they will often go on their own and so those were some of the things I felt we needed to give a really good try - and I don't believe chief Sloly, at this stage in it, was feeling the same way about it," she said.

Ferguson also recounted a call with Mark Patterson, the superintendent of the Ottawa Police Service, which she categorized as the worst day of her career. "He (Patterson) made...an attack on my integrity on behaviour that he felt I was engaging in that was unethical," Ferguson said.

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