Diane Therrien
Diane Therrien is a Canadian municipal politician who is the mayor of Peterborough, Ontario, a position she won in the 2018 Ontario municipal elections. Therrien is the third woman to be mayor of the city. Prior to her mayoral election, she was a city councillor for Ward 3 from 2014 to 2018.
On August 13, 2019, Peterborough City Council unanimously passed a by-law to eliminate camping in City Parks. Therrien has stated publicly she will not allow the police to enforce the bylaws as written.
1,751 members of the local community signed a petition requesting the removal of Tent City.
Eventually the police were tasked with removing the enacampment and over the course of the events, the city ran up a policing bill of more then $86,000.External Links
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