[news] Anti-poverty organizations condemn the proposed Safe Streets Act and Trespass to Property Act

[Resist!ca]

May 11, 2004 (Vancouver) Anti-poverty organizations are condemning the proposed 
Safe Streets Act and Trespass to Property Act. "Being poor is not a crime in 
British Columbia - at least, not yet," said Lesley Moore of End Legislated 
Poverty. "Lorne Mayercourt's 'Safe Streets Act' would strip away the right of 
poor people to ask for money. It is an attack on the right of the poor to 
scrape by, and an attack on their Charter-protected right to free speech. Maybe 
that's why Attorney General Geoff Plant isn't embracing this legislation with 
the same vigour as his colleagues."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/5/12/114616/646