Taken from the roll call in the town’s own minutes. The minutes record who was not there and almost never why.
What was decided (2 motions)
1 carried, 1 recorded otherwise. Every motion below is printed as the minutes print it.
WHEREAS Council recognizes the importance of protecting safe access to vulnerable social infrastructure, including schools, places of worship, healthcare facilities, and care homes, and affirms that specific conduct such as intimidation, harassment, obstruction, and violence are unacceptable and should be firmly ad-dressed; and WHEREAS Council’s original direction to staff emphasized that the scope of the by-law should be narrowly tailored to avoid infringement on Charter rights, and that protective zones should not apply to demonstrations that are not specifically directed at a protected facility; and WHEREAS the draft Safe Access to Social Infrastructure By law contains multiple conduct based prohibitions—such as obstruction, interference, intimidation, noise—that are directly connected to the objective of safe access; and WHEREAS Section 17(2)(a) of the draft by law goes materially further by stating that within a safe access zone, “no person shall conduct or participate in a demonstration”, regardless of whether such activity would impede safe access; and WHEREAS other safe access by laws adopted in Ontario regulate specific forms of harmful conduct or targeted expression that impede access, while Ottawa’s draft by law prohibits demonstrations or protests as a category within a safe access zone regardless of conduct or targeting; and WHEREAS Council is mindful of its obligation to ensure that any limits on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly imposed by municipal b
Moved by S. Devine
Lost
WHEREAS the Draft By-law already defines “labour dispute” means a dispute or difference concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employ-ee.” THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT Section 3 of the Draft By-law 2026-XXX, set out at Document 1 to the Report on the Safe Access to Social infrastructure, be amended and replaced with the following wording: “APPLICABILITY 3. For clarity, this by-law does not apply to labour union strikes, information pickets, or activities related to a labour dispute.”