Move Your Tents Now, NCC Tells Occupy Ottawa

This is the letter being distributed by the National Capital Commission to protesters in Confederation Park:

NOTICE

To all persons:

The National Capital Commission (NCC), the registered owner of the lands

known as Confederation Park, hereby gives notice to all persons that no

person is permitted to camp or erect a tent in Confederation Park.

All persons who are camping or have erected a tent must cease these

activities in Confederation Park immediately.

All tents, structures, equipment, debris and other personal belongings used

for these activities must be removed from Confederation Park on or before

11:59 pm on November 21, 2011, failing which, the NCC, its agents or

peace officers, may take the necessary steps to remove all such items

without further notice and at the owner’s risk. All such items will be kept in

storage for a period of up to 15 days. Arrangements for pickup can be made

by calling the NCC information line at 613-239-5000.

This notice is also given pursuant to the Trespass to Property Act, R.S.O

1990, c. T.21, as amended, and further to the National Capital Commission

Traffic and Property Regulations, C.R.C., c. 1044, section 38. Please be

advised that this notice may be enforced in accordance with the provisions

of the Trespass to Property Act or by any other means available to the NCC.

National Capital Commission

Dated November 21, 2011

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Ken Gray is an Ottawa journalist who was the Citizen’s city editorial page editor, municipal affairs reporter and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. He writes a weekly column Wednesdays in the Citizen. During the early ’90s, he edited the Southam News-Toronto Star First Edition, one of the first new media ventures in Canada. For more than three decades, he has worked in many posts from reporter to senior editor at the Montreal Gazette, the Winnipeg Free Press, the London Free Press, the Regina Leader-Post and the Citizen. As well, Gray founded and taught a course in media law and municipal government at Algonquin College. He earned a master’s journalism degree and a honours bachelor’s history degree at the University of Western Ontario in the 1970s.

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