If that sounds a lot like a property right, the error is entirely within your tormented imagination
it could actually go ahead and apply its bylaws. One has to admit that it picked a pretty hard case for itself. The property at 100 Victoria St. North isn’t a park; it’s just a parking lot for a future transit development. The evidence before the judge was that the camp creates some extra work for police, and costs Waterloo Region about $80,000 a month to clean and police, but nearby businesses don’t have any major problems with it.
One expert witness estimated that 95 per cent of the Kitchener tent-dwellers are drug addicts — and stop us if this shocks you, but most shelters forbid drug use on the premises, and drug abusers are among the most likely persons to get kicked out or banned. As Judge Valente summarizes, one of the named respondents testified that, “As a drug user, found it difficult to be around other people in the shelter who were very judgmental.
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