TORONTO -- Police are removing members of an anti-poverty group who set up a makeshift homeless shelter outside Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's office.
More than 50 demonstrators from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty brought sleeping bags and blankets to City Hall Friday afternoon to protest a lack of space in Toronto homeless shelters.
Authorities told them they must leave my Friday night and when they refused to comply, officers started removing some of them from City Hall one by one.
The protesters did not resist and local media reports indicated some left on their own.
The protesters had threatened to stay until the city deals with the problem in homeless shelters.
Toronto's recommended operating budget for 2013 shows a decrease of 41,172 bed nights -- one-night stays in a shelter by a single person.
Ford was not in his office, but told reporters at the Canadian International Auto Show that there are "plenty of beds".
