While I have not heard official word from the mothers involved in the rally, readers Kate and Kelly both alerted me to an excellent article at Parent Central. Susan Pigg reports:
Fearing that dozens of angry lactivists might show up at her pool, Karkouti contacted York Regional Police.
When it became clear they had no intention of sending uniformed officers, she says, Karkouti hired $400 worth of her own protection – four security guards who kept the 20 or so protesters, many of them children, at bay.
“I guess that’s what they come with,” Karkouti said yesterday of the Kevlar-clad guards. “I …read more

Image by _shward_ of past breastfeeding rally
You are invited to a breastfeeding rights rally on Friday, November 7, 2008, in Newmarket, Ontario.
The Breastfeeding Discrimination Incident
Nursing mother Cinira Longuinho explains:

I was breastfeeding my daughter on the steps of the swimming pool when Ms. Ellie Karkouti, the owner of the facility, came to speak with me. Ms. Karkouti said they had one complaint and that I could not breastfeed my daughter in the swimming pool. She said if I wanted to breastfeed I would have use the changeroom. I tried to say that based on the law I had the right to …read more