Ontario Premier Doug Ford says a provincial judge’s ruling barring the Region of Waterloo from clearing a homeless encampment on a future transit project site is the “most ridiculous” decision he has ever seen.
Ford was asked about the ruling by Justice Michael R. Gibson of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice during an unrelated press conference in Sault Ste. Marie on May 22.
Gibson found in a decision released May 21 that a local bylaw created to allow Waterloo Region to evict about two dozen homeless people from a parking lot encampment in downtown Kitchener violates their rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms….