"It could have led to significant and severe injuries, and it could have led to the loss of life. None of that has occurred over the last four days," Sloly said, according to Canada's CTV, while asserting that police would act by any means necessary to end the event.

Sloly's remarks follow a bizarre speech by far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – from an undisclosed location in which he is allegedly recovering from a Chinese coronavirus infection – in which he condemned the protesters as wearing "tinfoil hats," compared them unfavorably to violent "Black Lives Matter" protests, and equated receiving coronavirus vaccine products to "what being Canadian is."

Trudeau has adamantly refused to address the protesters' concerns and dismissed them as a "small fringe minority" that is representative of neither truckers nor Canadians generally.

The "Freedom Convoy" of thousands in Ottawa is demanding an end to all business, travel, education, and movement restrictions in the country. A GoFundMe page for the campaign, which has attracted upwards of 9 million Canadian dollars in donations, demands Trudeau's government "cease all mandates against its people."