Trucker convoy: Here’s what the 10-day injunction against horns includes

The trucker convoy injunction states that the 'timing and manner' of enforcing it is up to police as the demonstrations stretch into a second week.

For Ottawa residents living downtown, Tuesday may mark their first taste of relief in 12 days as a temporary court injunction takes effect that orders truckers in the so-called “Freedom Convoy” to stop blaring their horns.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean did not grant the 60-day injunction against horns that had been sought by Paul Champ, the lawyer for the plaintiff — a 21-year-old public servant named Zexi Li.

But McLean did grant an injunction for 10 days, and it remains to be seen whether that will be extended if demonstrators remain in the city.

Here is what we know about the terms of the injunction.

The wording of McLean’s injunction states that anyone not working with a municipal fire department is prohibited from using “air horns or train horns” within the area covered by the injunction.

That applies to any streets in downtown Ottawa, defined in the injunction as “any streets north of Highway 417, otherwise known as the Queensway.”

A large part of the area has been hard-hit by the encampments set up by the trucker convoy over recent weeks. Police have launched more than 60 criminal investigations into alleged hateful, threatening or violent conduct against residents of the neighbourhoods that stretch from the highway north toward Parliament Hill, where residents have been forced to endure deafening honking for days.

McLean’s order also directed the three main organizers of the convoy to share the injunction through their social media as well as any other channels “to all persons they know who are or who have been participating” in the convoy between Jan. 28 and now.