News - Middle East: Canadian police have gathered in mass numbers in the capital city of Ottawa preparing to clear a trucker-led protest that has choked the country’s streets.

Huge groups of police officers on Thursday filled into the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa, where the trucks have been parked for weeks.

Truckers have already been warned by the capital city’s interim police chief to “leave the area now,” or risk arrest and truck seizures, but they appear undeterred.

In a statement on Wednesday, Police Chief Steve Bell said “a methodical and well-resourced plan” would be carried out over the coming days to take back the control of the city.

“Some of the techniques we are lawfully able and prepared to use are not what we are used to seeing in Ottawa, but we are prepared to use them... to restore order,” he said.