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It's time for Canadian courts and governments to acknowledge that forcible displacement of homeless people is inhumane | rabble.ca
#1 · July 8, 2020, 6:12 pm
Instead of acting on public health advice, governments across the country have used COVID-19 as an excuse to continue their policies of forcible decampment. British Columbia's clearance of Oppenheimer, Topaz and Pandora camps is a leading example.
The province justified the evacuations as necessary to prevent, respond to or alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 emergency. But as Pivot Legal Society, a leading advocate for housing rights, pointed out in a letter to the province's lawyers:
It isn't as if the government couldn't afford to end homelessness. They don't want to. It's Canada's dirty secret — when we're all talking about what a great country this is.