Posted on 04/24/2021 6:43:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Peterborough police have issued tickets under the Reopening Ontario Act for the weekly protests — organized by a group called No More Lockdowns Canada — held at Confederation Square across from city hall, including four last Saturday. First offences are out-of-court $880 tickets, subsequent ones are court-summoned tickets with fines up to $5,000 or more.
However, this week Maxime Bernier, leader of the federal People’s Party of Canada, and Randy Hillier, independent MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston have stated they will be there this Saturday and have publicly invited people to attend.
Global News Peterborough directly asked the chief if officers would ticket either Bernier or Hillier if they attend on Saturday — a violation of current Ontario stay-at-home and lockdown orders.
“We’re, as I said before, we’re prepared to take enforcement and action where it’s necessary. And I’ll leave it at that.”
Gilbert says police have a duty of maintaining the peace at a protest but also balancing their ability to do enforcement and ensuring people are held accountable. He noted current legislation doesn’t permit police to be “preemptive” in keeping people from travelling to different communities.
“We can’t charge them all at the protests but we have been doing follow-up investigations and have been laying charges when offenders are identified.”
Gilbert says it’s “ironic” protesters will gather and stand on the war cenotaph which represents residents who fought in the war for freedom.
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That's a hell of a Statist mentality there-- that people demonstrating for freedom are standing on a monument for freedom is "ironic"!
Their leaders are clearly paid to force this on people to subject them and make them ultimately surfs on the plantation, or the leaders are just plain stupid.
I think it is the first. This crap MUST END.
Cuck country
Nuff sed
I’ve been told the people in that part of Canada are not that. That they are not that different than the people in Texas. It is obvious they are telling the pukes running the country they are sick of their crap.
The rule of law in Canada is worse than ours.
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