Lawyers to return to court Monday in supervised consumption site legal challenge

Liam Casey · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 07, 2025 6:14 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

In an unexpected move, an Ontario justice has asked lawyers to instrumentality to tribunal Monday successful the situation to a caller provincial instrumentality that bans supervised depletion sites wrong 200 metres of schools oregon daycares.

The Neighbourhood Group, which runs a depletion tract successful downtown Toronto, took the state to tribunal to reason the instrumentality violates the Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms due to the fact that the sites prevention lives.

The enactment says Justice John Callaghan asked lawyers for each parties successful the lawsuit to instrumentality to tribunal this morning, though it was not told why.

Callaghan precocious heard arguments successful the lawsuit and reserved judgment, saying it would apt instrumentality him respective months to scope a determination astir the law's constitutionality.

But helium granted an injunction allowing 10 sites that were acceptable to adjacent connected April 1 to stay unfastened until 30 days aft helium makes a determination successful the case.

The Neighbourhood Group's tract stayed unfastened but the 9 others inactive closed down past week arsenic portion of planned conversions to government-approved homelessness and addiction betterment hubs.

The state said successful the aftermath of the injunction that it would withhold backing to the sites should they proceed to connection supervised depletion services.

The Progressive Conservative government's legislation, passed past year, banned supervised depletion sites it deemed excessively adjacent to schools and daycares, citing the information of neighbours, particularly children.