Project G20 Inaugural Panel:
Protecting Rights in the Aftermath of the G20 Summit in Toronto
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 6th
Room FLB, Flavelle House
Project G20, a student-led working group of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, invites the legal community and the public at large to attend its inaugural panel entitled “Protecting Rights in the Aftermath of the G20 Summit in Toronto.”
On June 26-27, 2010 Toronto hosted the summit for the Group of 20 (“G20”) nations. Anticipating the large scale protests that would precede and coincide with the summit, the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto coordinated to establish a substantial security infrastructure and perimeter around the summit site. As many started gathering in Toronto prior to the weekend summit, complaints about improper police conduct became increasingly frequent. On June 26, as many as 10,000 people gathered in protest. While the vast majority demonstrated peacefully, a small group of black-clad individuals broke away from the main crowd, vandalizing stores and banks in the downtown core and setting fire to abandoned police vehicles. For the remainder of the weekend, the police adopted aggressive measures to control the demonstrations that subsequently lead to the arrest of more than 1,000 people, the largest mass arrest in Canadian history.
This inaugural panel will address the many allegations of breaches to Charter rights during the G20 week and add perspective to the debate about the proper balance between society’s fundamental freedoms and the state’s security interests.
For more information, please contact asper.projectg20@gmail.com
Panel Discussion with:
Cara Zwibel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Prof. Kent Roach
Representative from Law Union’s Movement Defence Committee (TBD)
The panel will be moderated by Prof. David Schneiderman.
Please RSVP by registering on the Asper Centre Website:
www.aspercentre.ca
