The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is launching a constitutional challenge against Vaughan’s bubble zone protest bylaw — one of several in Ontario that restricts protests around places of worship, schools and child-care centres.
The bylaw, which passed in June last year, bans organizing or participating in a “nuisance demonstration” within 100 metres of the property line of any vulnerable social infrastructure, which also includes hospitals and care facilities.
“Vaughan’s bylaw punitively prohibits an extremely wide range of peaceful protests,” said Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, director of the CCLA’s fundamental freedoms program, at a news conference Tuesday.
