By Canadian Press

David Eby calls banners over B.C. highway ‘hateful’ and ‘reprehensible’

Jun 22, 2023 | 4:02 PM

RICHMOND, B.C. — British Columbia Premier David Eby says “hateful” banners aimed at transgender people that have hung for months over one of the province’s highways are “reprehensible” and he wishes the protesters involved would “go home.”

The premier’s comments come more than a month after a B.C. Supreme Court judge granted the government an injunction banning signs or gatherings in the area around the Mountain Highway Overpass over Highway 1 in North Vancouver.

The messages have included signs that say “gender ideology = child sex grooming” and “no child is ever born in the wrong body.”

RCMP said Wednesday they were seeking clarity from the Ministry of Transportation on whether enforcing the injunction would mean infringing on protesters’ rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Eby says the government went to court seeking the injunction because the location of the protest raised safety concerns for drivers along the highway and that a sign has fallen on at least one occasion.

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He says the protest is seeking to divide British Columbians and stir up division and hatred. 

Banners at the same location have declared COVID-19 a “fraud” and carried abusive messages about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 22, 2023

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