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Major events ranging from sporting events to major international conferences too often result in disorder, deployment of riot squads, and mass arrests. Events surrounding a meeting of the G20 in Toronto and those at Vancouver’s Winter Olympics provide insight into the ways in which things can go wrong and the ways in which they can go well at major events. This article employs a “thick history” of events in order to explore gaps in Canadian law, including gaps between “law in the books” and “law in action.” The legal frameworks governing large-scale events affect the likelihood of success measured in public safety, minimization of disorder, and protection of basic liberties. Surprisingly, large events often proceed without the benefit of a developed legal framework, leading to confusion among federal police, local police, and civil authority. We assess past reliance on the common law, a Vancouver City bylaw, Ontario’s Public Works Protection Act [PWPA], and the policing and security provisions of the federal Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act (Foreign Missions Act) in order to determine which sorts of legal arrangements are most conducive to successful event management. Since major events in Canada are most often developed in law’s penumbra, without the benefit of clear legal authority or statutory direction governing the measures that are required, both effective management and ordinary liberties are compromised. A “worst of both worlds” outcome destabilizes police–citizen relationships and leaves individuals uncertain as to the durability of their rights of property, speech, assembly, movement, and personal integrity. Equally, police forces are left insecure as to the lawful means by which they should perform their duties. A comparison of the two events provides the pathology and a prescription, illustrating the need for legislation to govern the management of major events. Trop souvent, la tenue de grands evenements, comme les evenements sportifs ou les grandes conferences internationales, mene au chaos, au deploiement d’escouades anti-emeute et a des arrestations massives. Un retour sur les evenements entourant la tenue d’un sommet du G20 a Toronto et des Jeux olympiques d’hiver de Vancouver nous donne un apercu des choses qui peuvent bien fonctionner et des derapages possibles a ces occasions. Dans le present article, nous passons en revue ces evenements afin d’explorer les lacunes que comporte le droit canadien, y compris les ecarts entre le droit theorique et le droit pratique. Les parametres juridiques qui regissent les evenements de grande envergure influent sur l’efficacite des mesures liees a la securite publique, a la restriction des risques de chaos et a la protection des libertes fondamentales. Fait etonnant, les grands evenements se deroulent souvent sans qu’un cadre juridique ait ete mis au point, ce qui mene a la confusion entre les autorites policieres federales et locales et les autorites civiles. Nous nous penchons tour a tour sur l’application passee des regles de common law, d’un reglement de la ville de Vancouver, de la Loi sur la protection des ouvrages publics de l’Ontario et des dispositions relatives a la surveillance policiere et a la securite de la Loi sur les missions etrangeres et les organisations internationales (loi federale) afin de determiner les types de mesures juridiques les plus susceptibles d’assurer une gestion reussie des evenements. Etant donne que les grands evenements tenus au Canada sont planifies le plus souvent dans la penombre du droit, en l’absence d’une autorisation juridique ou de directives legislatives claires regissant les mesures qui sont necessaires, tant la gestion efficace que les libertes ordinaires sont compromises. Lorsque la situation degenere et que le pire survient, les relations entre la police et les citoyens sont destabilisees et les individus s’interrogent sur la durabilite de leurs droits de propriete ainsi que de leurs droits de s’exprimer, de se rassembler, de se deplacer et de proteger leur integrite personnelle. De leur cote, les forces policieres ont des doutes sur les moyens legaux auxquels elles peuvent recourir pour exercer leurs fonctions. Nous comparons les deux evenements afin de presenter la pathologie et une prescription mettant en lumiere la necessite d’adopter un texte legislatif regissant la gestion des grands evenements.

THE POLICING OF MAJOR EVENTS IN CANADA: LESSONS FROM TORONTO’S G20 AND VANCOUVER’S OLYMPICS