“The federal government will resort to the law on emergency situations,” Trudeau is quoted by TASS.

He stressed that this measure is necessary to stop the protests in the country.

Earlier it was reported that the Ambassador Bridge on the US-Canada border, which was blocked by protesters against coronavirus restrictions, has reopened.

On February 11, amid ongoing protests against anti-coronavirus restrictions in Ontario, Canadian provincial premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in the region.

Ford called protests against coronavirus restrictions in Ottawa an "occupation".

The mayor of the Canadian capital, Jim Watson, on the radio station 580 CFRA, said that the situation in downtown Ottawa amid ongoing protests against covid restrictions was out of control.