Coming years will bring questions over limits of protest and assembly, says Liberal MP Anandasangaree

'This question of peaceful assembly is something that we are going to be seeing more and more as we have these really aggressive anti-government protests,' says lawyer Emilie Taman.

Liberal MP Gary Anandasangaree says Canada needs to consider whether there are limits to the right to peaceful protest, and if so, where that line should be drawn, including whether protests based on hate are 'appropriate.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

June 22, 2022

Amid a strong police response to land defenders in B.C. and after the slow-moving shutdown of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, the federal justice minister’s parliamentary secretary says there will be increased questions in the coming years about the limits of protest. “The question that we have t...

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