Universities in Canada are warning pro-Palestinian demonstrators against erecting protest encampments like those that have gone up on campuses of colleges across the United States.
April 30 Universities in Canada are warning pro-Palestinian demonstrators against erecting protest encampments like those that have gone up on campuses of colleges across the United States.
The University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa have separately warned protesters that encampments and occupation of university buildings and land are not tolerated.
The Ontario higher-education institutions said they understand the situation caused by the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and support their students’ freedom of speech, but that encampments violate school policies.
«UofT’s lands and buildings are private property, though the university allows wide public access to them for authorized activities,» Vice Provost Sandy Welsh said in a message Monday to UofT students that was published online by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.
«Unauthorized activities such as encampments or the occupation of university buildings are considered trespassing.»
Welsh continued that any student involved in unauthorized activities or conduct «may be subject to consequences.
