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Court has asked the Occupy Toronto protesters to leave their camps and head towards their homes. Superior Court Justice David Brown announced court’s verdict at 9 a.m. Monday, supporting eviction notices issued by city bylaw officers.
Occupiers are encamped at St. James Park since Oct. 15. According to them, they have a constitutional right to camp in the park, near King Street East and Church Street.
Justice Brown said the Toronto’s trespass order was constitutionally valid.
He added: “Although proclaiming a message of participatory democracy, the evidence, unfortunately, reveals that the protesters did not practice what they were preaching when they decided to occupy the park. Specifically, they did not ask those who live and work around the park or those who use the park, or their civic representatives, what they would think if the park was turned into a tent city.”
“The applicants have failed in their onus to establish that the city actions in any way offend their charter rights. They have failed to demonstrate the camping in the tents is in any way an expression or that they are needed or used to express any ideas. Their act of camping out and effectively taking over a public park is not protected under Section 2.”
According to Councilor Norm Kelly, chair of Toronto’s Parks committee, the city does not yet have a schedule for clearing the park of the camps.
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