Edward Keenan: What does Toronto have against people having fun in its public spaces?
See, it starts to seem like our government is opposed to anything that would encourage people to hang out in parks and public spaces. You start to conclude that this city has some deep, built-in suspicion of anyone using public space for recreational purposes. No loitering. No ball or hockey playing without a permit. No fun.
What’s weird isn’t that those limits are necessarily incompatible with the concept of free speech. It’s that on its one monument to freedom of speech, the city feels the need to spend more than two-thirds of the words on the monument itself outlining the ways in which that freedom is limited. And, according to the city staff report, they’ve worked out fine in other Canadian cities too, where similar pilot projects “achieved public acceptance and generated minimal compliance issues , minimal impacts on operations and no increased reports of emergencies.”
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