With homelessness on the rise in many communities, the issues surrounding encampments have become a growing concern for municipalities, residents and advocates. At the timely “Critical Legal Issues for Homeless Encampments on Public Lands” session the OBA hosted during the February Ontario Legal Conference, speakers with extensive experience on the topic took a deep dive into previous case law that may – or may not – be a sign of what lawyers can expect in the future as this issue plays out.

Weighing in from the frontlines, Michael Bryant and Stéphane Sérafin provide two very different perspectives on the use of Section 33 that challenge us to consider the foundations and functioning of Canadian democracy.