If his motion is adopted by the city council, officials will be tasked with developing the guidelines for the bylaw, Del Duca said.
Vaughan's mayor cites a series of vandalism and protests targeting synagogues and a bomb threat targeting a mosque in recent months in his city as justification for a new bylaw.
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For him, these events represent an alarm bell. He affirms that the right to demonstrate is not unlimited when it comes to incitement to hatred.
He maintains that the security zones around places of worship and schools that he proposes in Vaughan would not be unique. He gives the example of the federal law which prohibits demonstrations blocking access to hospitals.
He also mentions Bill 86 in Ontario, which aimed to ban protests near religious establishments in the wake of the attack on a Muslim family in London.
The number of hate crimes in Toronto is up 93% since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, compared to the same period a year earlier, says Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw.
It reports 24 protest-related arrests and the filing of 30 charges since October 7, 2023.
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