The case dates back to 2015, when UAlberta Pro-Life held a rally in the University of Alberta’s quad, featuring a 700-square-foot display that showed images of aborted fetuses
EDMONTON — Alberta’s top court has concluded that students have Charter-protected free expression rights on campus, in a ruling related to a $17,500 security fee a student group would have had to pay to hold an anti-abortion rally at the University of Alberta.
Macfarlane said the court’s decision “also serves as a warning to universities across Canada that it may be unacceptable to use ‘security costs’ as cover to dodge these ‘free-speech controversies.
In response, UAlberta Pro-Life complained to the school’s protective service, saying the counter-protesters had broken the student code of conduct; the university investigated, but then dropped it. No charges were laid. Amberlee Nicol, then the president of UAlberta Pro-Life and Cameron Wilson, then the group’s treasurer, sued the university, asking the Court of Queen’s Bench to review decisions on both the disciplinary action following the 2015 rally and the security costs for the planned 2016 event.
The university, the ruling said, argued it had to spend its money wisely and therefore it was fair to download security costs to UAlberta Pro-Life.
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