A bit of background might surprise you on this.
https://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/jewish-mpp-aims-to-stop-hate-rallies-at-queens-park
The legislation was motivated by past demonstrations against Israel and Zionism, and in favour of Palestine. The proposed legislation is from a government member (opposition members can also bring private members’ bills) in the Ontario Conservative government.
Clearly some leftists have jumped on the bandwagon because they can use this legislation, if passed into law, to harass various conservative groups demonstrating (Queen’s Park is the location of the Ontario Legislature, the bill proposes to ban demonstrations on the grounds of the legislature rather than everywhere in Ontario).
I think this is an ill-considered action by a legislator eager to score points with his local voters (in a predominantly Jewish north Toronto riding). It’s not clear to me that he actually considered the wider context, perhaps he did, perhaps not.
Also, it’s only on a very small piece of land that is by no means the most likely place for political demonstrations of any kind to take place in Toronto. But of course it’s the principle of the thing.
It might be a good example of unintended consequences. The current Ontario government is well to the political right of the previous one or the Ottawa federal government. I am surprised the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, allowed this private member’s bill (he would have had an opportunity to tell his back-bench MPP to reconsider it). Anyway, it’s just before a committee after a first reading, it has to survive two more rounds of debate in the House to become an actual law. Then there would inevitably be constitutional challenges. I don’t see much chance of this bill, worded as it is now, passing into law or if it does, remaining valid law for very long.
Thanks for the info. We have problem politicians like that down here. We call them RINOs (Republicans in Name Only).