Word has been Trudeau is using a whole lot of RCMP instead of local cops. Many cops in Ottawa and around have suddenly tested positive for Covid you see, and so they aren't showing up to comply with the regulation. Even when the city gov tells them to, because they are that committed to not spread Covid you see :^).
If it's done, it will be the absolute cream of the crop of "just following orders" local yes-men and Federal Agents fully committed to end local terrorism whose entire info on the subject comes from fact checked and verified government approved sources.
He has to. But at the same time, Canada has 19,000 or so RCMP police officers. I'll make a guess that 10,000 of them are more investigative types or the ones that approve massive payments to criminal informants while pretending to keep an eye of them (until they kill 20+ people) That sounds like a lot, but they have policing duties over almost 10,000,000 square kilometers. They still have policing duties across large swaths of Canada where there's minimal local or regional police.
There's at least three widescale parking violations and mass jaywalking incidents in Ontario (Windsor, Ottawa, and more recently Cornwall. Sarnia acts up on the regular too). The RCMP already have policing and security duties in Ottawa over Parliament.
But there's a large contingent of RCMP currently at Coots. Then you have the Manitoba border, and possibly also at the US-BC border. If you move lots of federal cops away from, say....New Brunswick or Quebec, locals will probably move in and park illegally at some bridge or border.
The Windsor protest had a lot of London, Ontario police (two hours away), Ottawa has been calling for cops from places like Kingston, Toronto, and likely, Cornwall. If Sarnia acts up hard, where are they going to get cops?
And lastly....the RCMP types can be colossal douches, sure, but the ones I saw in Ottawa are basically relaxed as fuck. They know it's a peaceful protest. They also know they can't really do shit about the trucks. They cleared the cars from Windsor, but most left willingly. So they know if they go full jackboot now, they will only win if every single driver surrenders peacefully. And 99% will probably do so....but the one guy with nothing to lose? The guy from Eastern Europe seeing the parallels of Romania? How the fuck do you stop an 18 wheeler without massive damage or loss of life? If they go full Tiananmen Square, nothing good can happen