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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262626">Good evening; sharing a PSA from OPS for your information and to share with your various networks and staff.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262626">Please note, individuals working, residing and needing to enter the downtown core through the established check points will be granted access but it is helpful
to have work or residence identification available. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#262626">Expect traffic and delays in travelling in the area. We anticipate the LRT will not be running on its normal schedule and will NOT be entering into the downtown
core. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We will try and share more information as it becomes available. Please monitor Ottawa Police and City of Ottawa social media locations for updated information.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 17, 2021 4:50pm</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk96005165"></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0E101A">Secured Area Established</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(<a name="placeline"></a>Ottawa) – Under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act, the Unified Command in control of policing in Ottawa has established a Secured
Area to ensure that individuals comply with the Emergency Measures Regulations and to ensure designated places (Parliament, Government buildings, critical infrastructure etc) are protected.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You cannot travel to or within an area where an assembly is taking place contrary to the Regulations.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At this time, the Secured Area is from Bronson Avenue to the Canal, the Queensway to Parliament Hill.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anyone can enter the Secured Area if you fall under an exemption in the Regulations, meaning that you:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(a) reside, work or are moving through that area for reasons other than to participate in or facilitate the assembly;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(b) are acting with the permission of a peace officer or the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(c) are a peace officer; or
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(d) are an employee or agent of the government of Canada or a province who is acting in the execution of their duties.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You can expect to see police checkpoints where you will be asked your reason for travelling within the Secured Area. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You will be required to show proof of exemption for your travel to the Secured Area.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Expect traffic delays in and around the Secured Area. Please avoid the downtown core if you have no reason to be there.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“We do not take this decision lightly, we know this will impact the residents. Please bear with us while we work to return the city to a state of normalcy” stated Interim
Chief Steve Bell. “We want to reassure everyone that if you live, work or have a reason to be in the area that your access will be minimally impacted.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We want you to be aware that entering the Secured Area for the purpose of contravening the Emergency Act, may result in you being arrested and/or charged.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Secured Area will only be enforced as long as necessary.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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