Montreal, October 14, 2014 -- Documents that have been leaked to Montreal-area protesters confirm that the City of Montreal is spending more than $100,000 in legal fees just to defend against two grassroots constitutional challenges to the P-6 anti-protest by-law. This sum does not include expenses, nor does it take into account the significant spending already undertaken by the City to uphold thousands of P-6 tickets against both their contestation and class action lawsuits relating to them, and to defend against constitutional challenges.

The documents (http://goo.gl/AWMMUp and http://goo.gl/DgJhp4) show that the City of Montreal has contracted private law firm Belanger Sauvé for $70,000 in the case of Anarchopanda pour la gratuité scolaire, and $40,000 in the case of Jaggi Singh. Both are challenging the constitutionality of the P-6 by-law. A MORE @ http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/31910?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter