What encampment residents would say to Doug Ford
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of a recent court ruling affirming the rights of unhoused individuals in Ontario and the reaction from Premier Doug Ford.
Send us a note! "The homeless are not Other. They are Us," Ontario's Superior Court declared last month. In a ruling that had advocates cheering, Justice Michael Gibson affirmed that unhoused people are entitled to the same Charter rights as any other Canadian — and that a bylaw targeting a specific encampment for removal had therefore amounted to anti-homeless discrimination. This left Doug Ford fuming. But this isn't about the premier. Not mostly, anyway. It is, as our story exp...
Topics covered
- homelessness
- Charter rights
- anti-homeless discrimination
- Doug Ford
- encampments
Keywords
- homelessness
- Charter rights
- Doug Ford
- encampments
- Ontario Superior Court
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Ontario's Superior Court
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