After anti-vaccine protests outside hospitals and schools in B.C. this month, representatives of hospital workers and school principals are asking for protest exclusion zones to be put in place around key institutions.
Thousands protested B.C.’s vaccine card rules outside hospitals earlier this month, and some healthcare workers were allegedly assaulted. On Friday, schools in and around Salmon Arm, B.C., were put into temporary lockdown after protesters entered them, and are set to remain locked beginning Monday.
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Kyla Lee, a lawyer at Acumen Law, said enacting protest zones around hospitals and schools would be entirely legal for governments to do.
“There are always going to be situations of competing rights, and the government’s role is to protect people from harm, to protect the most people and respect the most rights as possible,” she said.
“Obviously, the access to health care and the access to an education are more important than your right to protest in some spaces.”
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