A Quebec Superior Court judge has refused McGill University’s request for an injunction to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that has been set up on its downtown Montreal campus since late April.
“The question is important in addition to being complex, so a more in-depth analysis than is normally done in the context of a provisional injunction is desirable,” he wrote. But St-Pierre said in his decision that McGill “cannot report any serious or violent incident since the erection of the first tents on the campus site,” including during a recent faceoff with counter-protesters that was cited by McGill as proof of a potential safety risk. The school has also secured an alternate venue to hold its convocation ceremonies, he noted.
The school noted that the encampment had been declared unlawful by a judge who found earlier this month that the protesters were illegally occupying the premises, even as that judge also declined a different injunction request from two students who argued the encampment created an environment of aggression and left them feeling unsafe.
“Not only has the McGill administration failed and deliberately stalled at responding with a concrete proposal that met our demands; they tried to repress us by filing for an injunction with the aim of forcibly removing us from the campus,” reads a statement posted by groups including the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Concordia.
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