McGill University calls on police to break up pro-Palestinian encampment

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University president Deep Saini said police will work through their own protocols to clear protesters

McGill University has taken the extraordinary step of asking police to deal with the pro-Palestinian encampment on its campus just days after it began.

He described it as a “gut-wrenching decision” that he did not take lightly, but that he judged necessary in the circumstances. Sibel Ataogul, a lawyer for the Association of McGill Professors of Law, and the Students’ Society of McGill University, who intervened against the petition Tuesday, said the application is unenforceable and aimed at silencing pro-Palestinian voices.

Elsewhere, protests at the University of Ottawa and at the University of British Columbia continued Tuesday. A protest encampment of several dozen people remained in place at MacInnes Field on UBC’s Vancouver campus. At the University of Ottawa, protesters say they have made a strategic decision not to form an overnight encampment but instead to run a daily protest that shuts down at 9 p.m.

The encampment, located on the lower campus behind the Roddick Gates, had grown to dozens of tents on Tuesday.

 

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