{"id":106902,"date":"2024-12-19T17:17:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/?p=106902"},"modified":"2024-12-23T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:45:41","slug":"protests-letter-from-elected-representatives-to-the-mayor-of-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/en\/protests-letter-from-elected-representatives-to-the-mayor-of-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Policing protests and demonstrations: letter from elected officials to the mayor of Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, December 18, <strong>Anthony Housefather<\/strong>, Member of Parliament for Mount Royal, <strong>Mitchell Brownstein<\/strong>, Mayor of C\u00f4te-Saint-Luc, and <strong>Christina M.\u00a0Smith<\/strong>, Mayor of Westmount, sent a letter to the Mayor of Montreal, Val\u00e9rie Plante, expressing their deep concern over the policing of demonstrations over the past year. In the letter, the elected officials call for stronger police enforcement during protest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2192<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.westmount.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Letter_to_Mayor_of_Montreal_Dec_18_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read the letter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, December 18, Anthony Housefather, Member of Parliament for Mount Royal, Mitchell Brownstein, Mayor of C\u00f4te-Saint-Luc, and Christina M.\u00a0Smith,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":38905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6594,6299],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Policing protests and demonstrations: letter from elected officials to the mayor of Montreal - City of Westmount<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Policing protests and demonstrations: letter from elected officials to the mayor of Montreal - 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