Gordon Campbell had to deal with a protest camp on the Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza. It took him a month to get rid of it. Then it moved to city hall.
That was just one interesting historical factoid that I discovered when I looked at the city’s past history of getting injunctions to clear protest camps — and why they did what they did with this one.
(If you want to look at one of the legal decisions connected to the 1991 camp-out, here’s this link.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Sean Antrim // Nov 7, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Hey Frances, I think the second link goes to the Globe piece and not the 1991 decision, which I’d really like to see.
Thanks!
2 Frances Bula // Nov 7, 2011 at 11:28 pm
@Sean. Fixed. I also emailed Tristan a copy to send to you because I didn’t have your email.
3 brilliant // Nov 8, 2011 at 12:31 pm
What happened? That’s easy enough: Gregor Robertson and Penny Ballem.
4 Cameron Ward // Nov 8, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Twenty years ago…I remember it well. Injunction orders and contempt of court applications are a most unsatisfactory way of dealing with these issues, imho.
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