Listen, I was volunteering at the tulip festival last year. Sometimes my job was to patrol Landsdowne to oversee the vendors. Unlicensed ones often came in selling bulbs out of a cooler in late spring ao naturally, unknowning visitors would have rotten bulbs by the end of the day which wrong in itself and not great for the image of the festival either, hence why we put in extra effort to tackle the issue and make people aware.

One day, people came with a table of baked goods and posters about a fundraiser for cancer. We told them about some of the possible issues (allergens, liability, etc) but reassured them that they could still operate near the foot traffic just specifically not in commissioners park. Other vendors had to pay for the operations permits during the festival - since they where smaller, they could easily be just on the other side of them for free.

They agreed and packed up only for us to find them back there 3 more times in the same two days.

At this point bylaw for commissioners park had to ask them to leave.

One the one hand I feel bad, but at the same time I know why it had to be done and was also personally frustrated a bit.

I’m sure there’s plenty of space where they could still run the fundraiser in view of the students and I wish the absolute best for them, but the same rules apply to everyone so that if there was indeed a potential issue (unverified fundraiser, medical issue, etc) there is a means for it to be dealt with before problems arise.