Battle of Billings Bridge

Sean Burges, a professor at Carleton University, said he made a Facebook post calling for community members to join him to prevent convoy protesters from getting downtown. "It was regular moms and dads, and grandpas and grandmas … coming out and just saying 'Enough. Protest all you want, but you've overtaken the city and you're abusing people. It's time to stop,'" he said. Burges said the counter-protest began with just 15 people at about 9:00 a.m., growing to a crowd of hundreds over the course of nine hours

"We really did feel like we had been abandoned by city leadership, by the police, by multiple levels of government"

Robert Ramsay, who lives in Old Ottawa South, was also at the so-called battle. He said community members like himself were forced to take matters into their own hands during the third weekend of the anti-pandemic rule and anti-government protest.