The real issue here is that there are not enough off-leash areas in the city. If a bylaw is continually broken and causes a problem instead of enforcement they need to look at a solution to the problem. This happens all the time with behaviour laws instead of solving the behavaiour they use non-effective draconion enforcement. If lots of people are jaywalking at a certain spot on a street the solution would be to put in a crosswalk rather than ticket the jaywalkers.
If there are 3 or 4 parks in every neighbourhood one of them should be designated off leash. A significant portion of citizens have dogs therefore there should be a significant number of off leash areas rather than the ones that are tossed in as afterthoughts. I don't fault the OP for using the park as an off leash area when the city should be providing these facilities in a convenient location for its citizens.
Even more ridiculus is the complaints you read in the Sun every summer about people down by the elbow river dog park complaining about off leash dogs while they are walking through it. If you don't want to be near a dog off a leash don't walk through a dog park
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