Ottawa police detain one of the organizers of protests against COVID restrictions

This is reported by the CBC TV channel.

Leach is in the police station.

Earlier, another protest organizer in Canada, Chris Barber, was detained.

Against the background of ongoing protests against anti-coronavirus restrictions in Ontario, the Prime Minister of the Canadian province Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in the region.

Canadian authorities have begun to freeze the accounts of protesters against anti-coronavirus restrictions.