B.C. Premier David Eby says “hateful” banners aimed at transgender people that have hung for months over Highway 1 are “reprehensible” and he wishes the protesters involved would “go home.”
The premier’s comments come more than a month after a B.C. Supreme Court judge granted the government an injunction banning signs or gatherings in the area around the Mountain Highway Overpass in North Vancouver.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
RCMP said Wednesday they were seeking clarity from the Ministry of Transportation on whether enforcing the injunction would mean infringing on protesters’ rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Eby says the government went to court seeking the injunction because the location of the protest raised safety concerns for drivers along the highway and that a sign has fallen on at least one occasion.Banners at the same location have declared COVID-19 a “fraud” and carried abusive messages about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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