WARMINGTON: Toronto Councillor Brad Bradford urges city to seek court injunction stopping Al-Quds Day

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Toronto Councillor Brad Bradford is calling for the city to go to court in an effort to cancel Saturday’s planned Al-Quds day protest.

“I am calling for the City of Toronto to file an emergency injunction to shut this thing down,” Bradford told the Toronto Sun Thursday afternoon before recording a video that he post to social media .

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He has written a letter to Toronto’s lawyers requesting they go to court Friday morning to achieve a cancellation of this event – similar to what occurred in London, England with the ending of the Al-Quds parade.

The Ward 19, Beaches–East York Councillor, who has declared he will challenge Olivia Chow for mayor in the Oct. 26 election, added “that is the legal mechanism we have in a situation like this” since the “constitution protects the right for people to peacefully protest.

But this is not a peaceful time and this is not a peaceful protest movement.

“The reason I am doing this, is in light of the three synagogues attacked, the U.S. consulate in the last week and what happened just across our border at the Jewish centre in Detroit and what is transpiring in Norway (a terror attack on the U.S. embassy),”Bradford said. “The situation is far too tense for us to be having an event like this that has a history of being hateful, confrontational and potentially violent.”

Showing leadership at a time of uncertainty Bradford added with so many unknowns, including who was behind the Toronto shootings where there have been no arrests, “the safety of all Torontonians is paramount.”

Allowing Al-Quds after shootings never made sense

Even before a terror attack on a Jewish centre near Detroit, it never made any sense to allow the antisemitic Al-Quds Day protest to take place Saturday. Elected officials telling the Toronto Sun that organizers do not have a protest permit to hold their event outside of the U.S. Consulate starting at noon is one good reason to not allow it.

While no arrests have been made in the U.S. consulate shooting, Toronto police did announce on Thursday that a suspect vehicle  – previously described as a white Honda CR-V  –   has been recovered in the city.

“The vehicle was stolen shortly before the incident and recovered within hours,” police said on X .

That this very U.S. consulate on University Ave. was the sixth target of recent terrorism in Toronto and the GTA this month is another reason not to allow it. When you throw in the fact that this is wartime and this Al-Quds protest started in Iran after the 1970 revolution, it makes no sense to host such an event while Iran is at war with America and Israel.

And, don’t forget, Al-Quds events in Toronto in the past have been riddled with antisemitic chants, music, flags and signs.

But with an armed terrorist driving his truck into a Jewish complex in Detroit before being killed by security, it’s just not worth the risk to appease a fringe minority who support banned terror groups.

Councillor Mike Colle, who saw a synagogue in his ward victimized by gunfire, was the first member of City Council to say this event needs to be shut down immediately.

“Absolutely, 100%,” Colle said.

Certainly there is no charter of rights designation that says anonymous organizers without proper permission to hold an demonstration event should not only call the shots in this city but also get to say they will do this at the U.S. consulate, which was shot up on Tuesday.

Organizers have no permit

It makes no sense, says Colle.

“No permit and the RCMP declared it a National Security threat and yet they don’t support or call for a total ban,” he said.

Councillor James Pasternak added no matter what happens with the Al-Quds event, “one of the great policy vacuums at the City of Toronto is having a comprehensive and enforceable rallies and protests policy.”

He said such permit violations are “not enforced, reviewed or expanded for changing times” and “the city does not issue permits for such events,” which is “a major mistake.”

Pasternak said he will push to change this.

“Our city cannot endure any more of this mayhem,” he said.

Any politician who doesn’t step up and follow the lead of Bradford, Colle and Pasternak is taking a major risk.

If someone is hurt or killed at this event, as a result of a terror attack or any way it happens, there will be hell to pay for it.

Too dangerous to mess around with

Remember, Iran is the world’s largest funder of state-sponsored terrorism.

With no suspects in custody for the shootings at the U.S. consulate, three GTA synagogues , the Iranian-Canadian boxing gym or the Jewish-owned Old Avenue Restaurant, it’s taking quite a gamble that whoever did all of that won’t show up at something else.

Also, remember that while the Al-Quds crowd is planning the protest, there are counter protests from anti-IRGC/Ayatollah Khamenei quarters who plan to be there as well.

As I told Ontario Premier Doug Ford, it’s just too dangerous to leave this to chance.

Ford, Mayor Olivia Chow and Prime Minister Mark Carney have so far not commented on Bradford’s quest to seek a court injunction to stop this year’s Al-Quds Day.

As of this filing, and before anything gets filed in court, this year’s Al-Quds is still on. In fact, just before the Detroit attack, Toronto Police Supt. Craig Young briefed the media of their plans for Saturday.

Other than saying there are no drones allowed over the U.S. consulate, it seems more than 3,000 expected can assemble outside of there.

“Torontonians should also be aware that there may be temporary road closures or disruptions in parts of the downtown core while the event is underway, beginning at approximately noon on Saturday,” Young said. “Our priority, as always, is to ensure the safety of everyone involved – including participants, counter-protesters, residents, visitors, and our officers.”

Why shut down hospital row, or any street, for people who support the enemy of the West and their proxies, want Israel to vanish, spew anti-Israel hatred and don’t even have a permit to gather there?

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