The rule violated âthe right to life, liberty and security protected by the Canadian and Quebec charters (of rights and freedoms),â Masse wrote. âFor objective reasons,â she trenchantly noted, many homeless Montrealers fear contracting COVID-19 in the cityâs shelters, âwhich are crowded in this winter period and have been the site of outbreaks.â Homeless people are likely to hide from curfew-enforcing police, and thereby be placed at greater risk of terrible injury or death, she argued â and for no goddamn good reason, I might add. Indeed, rights and freedoms aside, forcefully rounding up people sleeping in Montrealâs bleak nighttime winterscape and shutting them up in warm shelters is thunderingly moronic anti-pandemic policy. It would make far more sense to buy and distribute proper winter-camping equipment to them.