- DailyMail.com was given an exclusive tour of one of the Freedom Convoy camps in Ottawa, Canada
- The camp has 200 volunteers providing massive logistical support to the truckers 24/7
- It provides 500 hot meals a day, facilities for up to 30 children and even has two sauna cabins and three massage therapists
- On Wednesday Ottawa cops began dishing out leaflets to truckers occupying the city's downtown core demanding they leave immediately
- The flyer read: 'You must leave the area now. Anyone blocking the streets, or assisting others in blocking the streets, are committing a criminal offence and you may be arrested'
Ottawa cops have started dishing out leaflets to truckers occupying the city's downtown core demanding they leave immediately.
The operation began around 10am local time Wednesday around the crucial Parliament Buildings area of the blockade.
The flyer read: 'You must leave the area now. Anyone blocking the streets, or assisting others in blocking the streets, are committing a criminal offence and you may be arrested.
'You must immediately cease further unlawful activity or you will face charges… The people of Ottawa are being denied the lawful use, enjoyment and operation of their property and you are causing businesses to close. That is mischief under the Criminal Code.'
Some of the truckers handed ripped the notices ripped up while others handed them back to officers. One told a cop: 'Take your garbage back.'
This comes as DailyMail.com was given an exclusive tour of one of the Freedom Convoy camps, officially known as Base Camp 3, Coventry 302.
The base camp a tented nerve center in the operation to maintain the crippling truck-blockade occupation of downtown Ottawa.
Spreading over a baseball stadium's four-acre parking lot three miles from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office, it is largely shielded from a busy road by big rigs and pick-up trucks.
Mounds of snow also give the staging area some cover from prying eyes.
And it's fair to say what goes on at the burgeoning tent city has been the subject of speculation since its first makeshift structures appeared on January 29.
However DailyMail.com can now reveal details of the massive operation being carried out there after being given an exclusive tour of the camp by officials.
As well as an office for crucial planning, the camp also provides massive logistical support to the truckers and volunteers 24/7.
This includes providing 500 hot meals a day, facilities for up to 30 children – and even two sauna cabins and three massage therapists.
Relays of volunteers ferry the truckers occupying downtown back to the camp to feed them, do their laundry and provide them therapy in a well-oiled operation.
The camp also has its own security force.
Before the tour, we had to go through security requirements that felt almost like a fast-track vetting.
There is a strict checkpoint, where unknown visitors are scrutinized. We handed over our business cards to a cheerful young woman, who took them away to the central office.
She returned ten minutes later saying someone would call and we might be able to come back.
No call came, so we returned to the checkpoint two hours later – where Base Camp 3 volunteer Angel Godsoe, 50, emerged from another tent and handed us makeshift media accreditation to hang from our necks.
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