Despite the smooth running for the most part of the anti-sanitary measures demonstrations in Quebec, Mayor Bruno Marchand does not want to make it a habit every weekend.
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“Every weekend, it’s really disproportionate. […] I hope that we will be able to give ourselves time between the demonstrations to be able to catch our breath, ”said the mayor of Quebec, Bruno Marchand, during the report of the weekend Sunday.
On Sunday, the organizers of the convoys said they would return “if necessary”, if they did not obtain the abolition of the health emergency in the coming weeks. All of the protesters had left around 5 p.m. Sunday.
“We’re going to decant this, we’re going to watch […] how they will react. The rest of us will react if it doesn’t work. We will find other things [pour se faire entendre] “Launched Bernard “Rambo” Gauthier in front of barely a few hundred people.
At the end of this second weekend of demonstration, Mayor Marchand is still satisfied with the progress and he even noted a “clear” improvement in the noise level. “We had very, very few complaints to 311,” he noted.
Exasperated citizens
However, citizens who could no longer stand the inconvenience caused by the demonstrators were delighted to finally be able to find the tranquility of their city center on Sunday evening.
“I couldn’t take it anymore, I was having panic attacks. We’re all fed up, but they weren’t going about it the right way,” says Annie, who lives on René-Lévesque Boulevard.
The latter lodged noise complaints over the weekend and on February 5, although she agrees the rally over the past few days was less cacophonous than the first.
Photo Jeremy Bernier
Maria Tremblay is happy to finally find the tranquility of her neighborhood after the departure of the demonstrators.
Maria Tremblay, who lives a little further on Turnbull Avenue, hopes with all her heart to find the tranquility of her neighborhood for good.
“I was stressed walking around my own neighborhood. On Saturday, I took different paths to get where I wanted to go, to get away from it all,” she says.
However, for many demonstrators, the “fight for freedom” is far from over, despite the gradual deconfinement well underway in Quebec and the dislodging of the convoy in Ottawa.
“I am convinced that we had an impact on the governments, but they will never admit it. [Le mouvement] doesn’t run out and will come back even stronger,” expressed Catheryne Thiffault.
More than 160 offenses
For its part, the Quebec City Police Service has submitted “63 tickets under the peace and good order regulations, 75 tickets under the Highway Safety Code and 29 parking tickets” for the end full week.
There were also four arrests, on Saturday alone.