The judge of the Supreme Court in Quebec rejected a temporary request for a court order that would have forced the protesters at the Palestine-supporting camp on the McGill University campus to leave.

This comes after the plaintiffs claimed that the Palestine-supporting camp on campus created a "dangerous, hostile, aggressive, and violent environment."

Lawyer Neil Oberman explained, "There are Canadian values, there are Quebec values, but they are not values of hate, they are not values of intimidation, they are not values of harassment, and no one in Canada or Quebec will tolerate or accept that, and the court should not accept that either."

The plaintiffs were seeking to immediately restrict protests to 100 meters away from any building at McGill University to ensure that students could access the facilities.

In her ruling yesterday, Wednesday, Judge Chantal Masse stated that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the protests caused irreparable harm, and there was no indication at this stage that the protesters intended to obstruct access to exams or McGill buildings.

The ruling stated, "The court sees that the balance of harassment leans more towards the protesters, whose freedom of expression and peaceful assembly would be significantly affected."

The ruling added: It is too early, at this stage, to conclude that the situation will not be resolved appropriately and without violence through police intervention, which the court order would not necessarily encourage."