Ester Reiter lived through discrimination as a Jew in Cold War America, marched to protest the Vietnam War with two babies in tow, and visited a mass grave in a southern Poland forest where her grandparents, aunts and uncles were likely murdered in the Holocaust.
When she woke up on Wednesday morning, the 77-year-old didn’t hesitate to stand up for what she says is another great injustice — the Ontario government passing legislation that a judge ruled violates the Constitution.
She cancelled her recorder quartet practice and made her way to Queen’s Park.
“You can’t let them get away with these dirty deeds without witnessing the thing,” said Reiter of the Progressive Conservative government invoking the “notwithstanding” clause to ram through cuts to Toronto city council in the middle of a municipal election campaign. “This is outrageous. It’s like shredding everything I care about.”
‘You can’t let them get away with these dirty deeds,’ says protester removed from Queen’s Park Wednesday
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