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Ontario mayors discussing motion calling on feds, province to help in efforts to regulate encampments

QP Briefing has learned the province's big city mayors' caucus is debating passing a motion asking the provincial and federal governments to take on “intervenor status" in future court cases that could restrict their communities' ability to regulate and prohibit encampments.

Barbara Patrocinio
Barbara Patrocinio
Ontario mayors discussing motion calling on feds, province to help in efforts to regulate encampments

A person walks past a homeless man as he rests beside tents set up in Trinity Bellwoods Park during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Monday, September 21, 2020. (Nathan Dennette/The Canadian Press)