The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is contesting a bylaw in Vaughan that restricts protests near vulnerable social infrastructures, including places of worship and schools. The bylaw, enacted in June, defines 'nuisance demonstrations' broadly, hindering peaceful protests deemed intimidating. Critics, including CCLA, argue the bylaw unjustly impairs freedoms of expression, assembly, and association. Similar measures have been adopted in other Ontario municipalities, but CCLA targets Vaughan for its particularly expansive prohibitions. The challenge emphasizes the importance of safeguarding constitutional rights within democratic society.
Vaughan's bylaw punitively prohibits an extremely wide range of peaceful protests... It severely infringes upon freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association.
The bylaw defines a nuisance demonstration as one or more people protesting against something...likely, on an objective standard, to cause a reasonable person to be intimidated.
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