Posted on 04/05/2021 6:56:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
The owner of a Vancouver restaurant is vowing to continue defying a provincial health order banning indoor dining for three weeks, despite being served with an individual order to close.
Vancouver police said a liquor coordinator and provincial health officers attended Corduroy Restaurant on Cornwall Avenue, Saturday and issued a full closure order.
But the restaurant remained open to diners when Global News attended Saturday night, and on its Instagram page, the restaurant says it plans to reopen on Tuesday, after closing for Easter and because it had run out of food.
Video posted to Facebook on Saturday showed what appeared to be staff with Vancouver Coastal Health attending to speak with Corduroy owner Rebecca Matthews.
In the video, Matthews, who is unmasked and has an infant strapped to her chest, tells the inspectors she does not recognize their jurisdiction and that they are trespassing.
Diners at the packed restaurant then join into a chant of “Get out! Get out!” prompting the health officials to leave to cheers from the crowd.
Vancouver police referred questions to Vancouver Coastal Health and provincial officials.
In a statement, Vancouver Coastal Health said “any alleged violations of closure orders are taken very seriously and are thoroughly investigated.”
Asked about the apparent lack of enforcement, Health Minister Adrian Dix said action was being taken Sunday.
“I’m frustrated with the behaviour here,” he said. “No one misunderstands the rules.”
“We are enforcing that closure order, and it is being enforced right now, and it will be enforced.”
B.C. banned indoor dining for three weeks last Monday, as a part of a “circuit breaker” meant to curb a third wave of COVID-19 infection.
Under B.C.’s COVID-19 heath orders and the COVID-19 Related Measures Act, a business can be fined $2,300 while individuals can be fined $575 for infractions related to non-compliant social gatherings.
There is also a separate fine for belligerent behaviour related to enforcement of COVID-19 orders.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth described restaurant non-compliance as “disgraceful” on Saturday, given the recent surge in cases and growing spread of the more dangerous COVID-19 variants.
Farnworth said on top of fines, businesses could also see their liquor or business licences pulled.
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Looks like it took a Polish pastor to stir them to action.
The lockdowns end when enough people push back and that includes business owners.
A health bureaucrat named Dix complaining about the citizens in revolt. Precious. His name says it all.
Pretty RADICAL for Canadians!
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Yes but they s will soon learn their lesson - as they will be identified, rounded up and sent directly to the Northern Territories to serve life sentences without hope of return
And his wife, Karen.......................
Send crates of Bibles to these Canadians.
Beecher’s Bibles.
Send crates of Bibles to these Canadians.
Beecher’s Bibles.
Hmmm... Could the sheeple finally be growing a spine? Or maybe resistance to tyranny is, er, ‘infectious’?
Maybe he should eat a bag of them.
Bravo....
This is the only way this crap will stop
I think it’s awesome...both videos of folks standing their ground.
Be prepared though. These Stazi SOB’s will not go away, they will ramp up the pressure on these citizens.
They (we) should be prepared also to push back even harder till these government patsies realize...it’s over. The lockdowns, the masks, the heavy hand. It’s over.
Ping.
It won’t be over until a few of them are hung.
>>It won’t be over until a few of them are hung.<<
Not sure about all that, but definitely begin pushing back. Tell these Stazi idiots, we are done with your controlling edicts. Period.
After all...my body, my right.
“Hmmm... Could the sheeple finally be growing a spine? Or maybe resistance to tyranny is, er, ‘infectious’?”
It is very, very possible that what the Polish Pastor did has started a movement. It so often happens this way. First one, then another, then 3, then 10 and soon you have a wave.
Chinese proverb, “The longest journey starts with but a single step”
I don't understand why Canadians don't beat these bureaucrat ministers to death with baseball bats.
Wow, in Vancouver! The most leftist city in Canada!
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