Yes, and also for the hospitals we have a lot of our health care workers, particularly nurses, who come from the province of Quebec and have to travel over our bridge system to get to the Montfort Hospital in the east end or CHEO in the south end, and as you know, most of the bridges were shut down as a result of the challenges. There was one bridge designated for health care workers where they would have to go through a checkpoint, which slowed everything down. The Montfort had to rent hotel rooms close to the hospital so that their staff could actually go sleep over to meet their shift the next morning or the next evening.
Alex Munter, the president of CHEO—the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario—stated very recently that 13 families—I believe it was—had to have their chemotherapy appointments for their children cancelled because during that period of time the traffic flow was not going where it should have. These were people who were from outside of Ottawa, because CHEO serves all of eastern Ontario, and there was a fear of bringing children into the downtown core. These are not made-up stories—the president of CHEO is not spinning a tale—these are facts that put these children at risk as a result of this behaviour of these people who came to protest.
We have nothing against protesters, as Steve Kanellakos says, we're very good at welcoming protesters, but this was an occupation of our downtown.