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This is a deeply troubling and wrong-in-law take on the @uOttawa encampment. A few thoughts in response... 'Just cause' is not the legal test. What makes the students actions lawful (and they are) is that they are exercising fundamental freedoms of expression & peaceful assembly, protected under the Charter of Rights & under Canada's international human rights obligations. Freedoms every one of us should take to heart, and embrace & champion vigorously, whether or not we are the ones protesting. Notably, the U of O students have taken up their right (a right we all share) to peaceful protest thoughtfully & courageously, and with remarkably little disruption to campus life. I know, I've been there several times, including an engaging afternoon teach-in discussing international law. Sometimes I've just spent a few moments, other times I've stayed for lengthier conversations. I've been their in the full heat of the sun & in pouring rain. Each time, I've had inspiring exchanges with the students involved. I've always left with respect & admiration. Left, in fact, with renewed hope in what too often feels to be a hopeless time. I served as a Commissioner with the Ottawa People's Commission on the Convoy Occupation. With my fellow commissioners I heard & read testimony from over 200 residents of Ottawa about the fear, assaults, hate & abandonment they went through while the convoy had taken over & blocked a large swath of the downtown core. Many of the most vulnerable members of our community felt so terrorized they could not leave their homes or were unable to navigate the hostile sidewalks outside their apartments. It is an absurdity, and an absolute affront to the trauma & unrelenting rights abuses endured by thousands of people in downtown Ottawa for 3 weeks, to draw any kind of comparison between the truckers & the students. Or to suggest that the impact of what was playing out with the big rigs & other vehicles completely blocking passage along city streets, compares even slightly to tents pitched on a relatively out of the way university greenspace the size of one small city block. There is no comparison; at all. That is why action should have been taken, much earlier than it was, to restrict the convoy & protect human rights; but is not justified in any way with the encampment. And for that restraint & respect for the law, @recteurUOpres & the university administration deserves praise for their approach, which has of course not been on display on other campuses. (What happened in Calgary & Edmonton should offend us all.) And enough with red herrings of asserting that campuses are private property, Charter-free zones, where only the law of trespass & the dictates of university officers govern, and the police can be summoned at will. The 'universities are private property' argument is, at best, still unsettled law with courts across the country having taken different approaches over the years. And as we've seen 2 times now, Quebec judges refused to take the step of forcing the McGill encampment to be dismantled. Here's a refreshingly contrary take about the rule of law & the encampments. "Enforcing the law" means upholding protest rights & intervening to limit or shut down a protest ONLY when truly justified, for reasons recognized under human rights laws. It does not mean sending in the police to clear away protesters because they have inconveniently occupied space & have views that some may find uncomfortably challenging.