Bloomberg: Police In Ontario Balk at New Powers Under Virus Emergency Law
(Bloomberg) -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he had no choice but to impose some of North America’s toughest restrictions to curb a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases.
Some police forces have pushed back. Canada’s largest province laid out new measures Friday as part of an emergency stay-at-home order, prompted by a jump in serious virus cases.
Ford’s government gave police extraordinary powers to stop vehicles and individuals, to ask why they aren’t at home.
But police in Toronto, Waterloo and other cities quickly issued statements saying they won’t do random checks.
And on Saturday the government backtracked, saying the power will apply only when police suspect people of participating in a gathering or event.
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Update: Canadian Cops Refuse To Enforce Ontario's New 'Police State' COVID-Lockdown Laws (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: The government of Ontario has `rescinded these restrictions .... Ontario retracts new coronavirus restrictions that banned playgrounds, involved police after outcry (FOX News).
I live in Quebec. Our restrictions are far worse than what the Ontario government wanted. But there is no equivalent outrage or media coverage here.
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/I guess that's the price of the "Best Quality of Life" award.
How are they culpable? I consider the journalists as culpable. There ahs been the usual cases of among the elderly There has by 1 or 2 in the 40s. Unlike the last case of a 40 something, they are telling the public squat. Last time we learned that the 40 something was living in long term care facility and had preexisting conditions.
I guess someone must have taken the journalists out behind the wood shed and beat the living daylights out of them, because now they only report country and age range. They must have all graduated from the Ilhan Omar school of journalism ("some people did something").
Imagine having to buy structural steel and all you could know is the iron content, but not the percentages of the other alloying metals. That is the news world we live in.
IMHO. The community I live in would not stand for injustices like this. Like minded neighbors and community cooperation would quickly overwhelm perceived thuggery or banditry.
short form B poster ^^^^
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