Update: May 6, 2024 Stratford residents, including Mike Sullivan, have been banned from attending any city owned properties or from speaking with any city staff for three months.
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The Town of Amherstburg may have set a precedent in its own community when it banned Graham Hobbs from all municipal facilities, but it isn’t the first municipality to issue a ban that judges have ruled unconstitutional.
June 2006 Russell Township banned a persistent council critic.
Jacques Aube, 75, attended Russell Township municipal meetings about four times a month. He was notified last November he was barred from the municipal offices after he asked the township clerk a number of pointed questions about a Ministry of the Environment report on the township’s master plan during an October council meeting.
March 2009 Windsor Edy Haddad
Three years after being banned from city hall and other municipal offices, political and social activist Edy Haddad is now welcome to return. Windsor activist Edy Haddad allowed back at city hall
February 2010 Petrolia Trespass ban partly lifted
February 2012 Niagara Falls council bans resident from City Hall Fred Bracken
In an unprecedented move, Niagara Falls council has gone behind close doors to ban a former city employee from attending meetings.
July 2012 Windsor A leader of last year’s Occupy Windsor movement and outspoken critic of disgraced Coun. Al Maghnieh is no longer banned from city hall.
May 2013 Critics decry “draconian” measures in proposed Windsor no-trespass policy
Cross said the city has still not explained why her client Robert Mittag was banned from municipal property last summer after being ejected while protesting outside city hall. It was the no-trespass order against Mittag that triggered work on the new policy which council will be asked to adopt next week.
November 2013 Town urged to lift Gammie ban by CCLA
October 2014 now elected to council.
December 2014 Judge finds resolutions “violated” Gammie’s rights.
June 2015 Owen Sound Gammie insists town legal costs aren’t his fault.
August 2015 McNab-Braeside Township resident faces lifetime ban from municipal properties
Oshawa ban – Civil liberties organization upset with City.
November 2015 Niagara Region Fred Bracken A one-year trespass notice that barred a Fort Erie man from attending regional council meetings violated his Charter rights, a judge has ruled.
November 2015 – Graham Hobbs banned from Amherstburg town hall and all municipal facilities for one year.
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I’m very sorry to hear that you were another victim of bullying. I always wondered if Graham Hobbs was not alone because you know, where there’s smoke. Such a disgraceful way to treat residents in their own communities.
Mr. Hobbs may have been the first, but he was not alone. There is likely a list of dozen or more threatened or bullied in writing by the former Mayor and former CEO – myself included. I was banned from any and all communications with staff for contesting by email the actions of Mayor, Council, CEO and clerk, all since departed. If you don’t like the message, shoot the messenger. I was cautioned by a polite insider at the time that I was not alone, but to back down or face being mired in expensive court procedures. The ban communicated to me in writing had no end date, and for legal purposes may still be considered to be in force today. And as anyone could have predicted, the former CEO, whom the former mayor communicated to me his unwavering support, left under mysterious circumstances escorted out by the police – reasons never to be disclosed to the public. I silently protest by spending zero dollars at Amherstburg businesses, and still do the more-or-less the same today, despite the changeover in administration, short of any acknowledgement of overreach and a rescinding of the Town’s letter to me.