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Ontario set to lift vaccine passport rules March 1, but masking rules remain, Doug Ford announces
The Global Mail ^ | Feb. 14 2022 | Jeff Gray

Posted on 02/14/2022 7:14:32 AM PST by Aquamarine

Ontario plans to lift its vaccine-certificate system March 1, Premier Doug Ford announced Monday, while allowing the removal of current capacity limits for restaurants by Thursday.

Masking rules are to remain in place. Businesses will be free to continue using the province’s proof-of-vaccination system if they choose.

“Given how well Ontario has done in the Omicron wave, we are able to fast track our reopening plan,” Mr. Ford said in a statement released ahead of a news conference on Monday. “This is great news and a sign of just how far we’ve come together in our fight against the virus. While we aren’t out of the woods just yet, we are moving in the right direction.”

Under this accelerated timeline for lifting restrictions, as of Thursday at 12:01 a.m., indoor private gatherings will be limited to 50 people, up from 10. The limit will be 100 for outdoor gatherings. Capacity limits will be removed for restaurants and bars without dancefloors, gyms and cinemas, event spaces, casinos and bingo halls.

Sports arenas will be limited to 50 per cent capacity, along with concert venues and theatres. Nightclubs and similar venues will have 25 per cent capacity limits.

But as of March 1, if COVID-19 numbers continue to improve, all these capacity limits will be lifted – along with the mandatory vaccine passport system, which required patrons at restaurants and other businesses to show a QR code proving they are vaccinated.

The government says that local public health units will be able to impose their own restrictions, however, to “manage COVID-19 over the long term.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buffoon; canada; dougford; masks; mexico; ontario; tyranny; vaccinepassports
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1 posted on 02/14/2022 7:14:32 AM PST by Aquamarine
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To: Aquamarine

The press might not say it... but the Truckers Won.


2 posted on 02/14/2022 7:15:36 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: Aquamarine

Imposing masks means they admit the vax doesn’t work.


3 posted on 02/14/2022 7:16:10 AM PST by marron
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To: protoconservative

Everyone up here needs to stop complying with the stupid mask mandates.

We have never complied. Just walk in the store, if they stop you and ask you if you have a mask, just say no. If they offer you one, just say no, thank you and go about your business. Worst that can happen is they ask you to leave.....if at least half of us refused to wear masks, this will fall apart fairly quickly.


4 posted on 02/14/2022 7:17:59 AM PST by JudyinCanada (Aim low, avoid disappointment.)
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To: protoconservative
Probably as big a win as they're going to get.
5 posted on 02/14/2022 7:19:10 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Aquamarine

Ford is such a tool. ‘Fast track’ my butt. ‘We all worked together’ ..BS. Mandates are not ‘working together’.


6 posted on 02/14/2022 7:20:21 AM PST by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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To: marron

Yet there is no proof that cheap cloth masks work or associated mandates do as well.


7 posted on 02/14/2022 7:22:38 AM PST by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: Aquamarine

Just like the British when they repealed the Stamp Act but passed the Declaratory Act, and when they repealed all the Townsend duties but left one (on tea).

They’re oligarchs. They have to save face but need to keep their power hand in.

So they repeal most but leave one tyranny, just to show that they can.

It’s sick. But it’s how power goes.


8 posted on 02/14/2022 7:22:38 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: Aquamarine

Isn’t that special, they think this is a negotiation.


9 posted on 02/14/2022 7:23:05 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: protoconservative

They haven’t won yet.


10 posted on 02/14/2022 7:23:28 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: marron

Those aren’t masks.

They’re muzzles.


11 posted on 02/14/2022 7:23:46 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: mewzilla
Meanwhile...

Politics·Breaking Trudeau plans on invoking the Emergencies Act: sources

12 posted on 02/14/2022 7:25:18 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: Aquamarine

. “This is great news and a sign of just how far we’ve come together in our fight against the virus


That is not what the fight is about.......................


13 posted on 02/14/2022 7:27:31 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: mewzilla

CBC News
@CBCNews

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling the premiers this morning and holding a rare Monday caucus meeting as the convoy protest in Ottawa stretches into its third week.cbc.caTrudeau plans on invoking the Emergencies Act: sources | CBC News9:00 AM · Feb 14, 2022·


14 posted on 02/14/2022 7:28:03 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: Aquamarine

Does he like coke and hookers like his brother?


15 posted on 02/14/2022 7:28:31 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: mewzilla

CBC News
@CBCNews

UPDATE: CBC News has learned Justin Trudeau will inform the provinces he will invoke the Emergencies Act to give the government extra powers to deal with the protests across the country. Trudeau said there were no plans to deploy the military.cbc.caTrudeau plans on invoking the Emergencies Act: sources | CBC News9:54 AM · Feb 14, 2022


16 posted on 02/14/2022 7:28:58 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: marron

Somehow, they’ve never connected those facts…of course, masks don’t “work” against a virus either, which has been known since the start.

This is all about a visible sign of control. If they’re dropping the “passport,” they won’t have that one. So they have to keep the one remaining sign, the mask.


17 posted on 02/14/2022 7:29:02 AM PST by livius
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To: mewzilla
Think this is it...

Emergencies Act R.S.C., 1985, c. 22 (4th Supp.)

Funny, I don't see pi$$ed off patriots listed anywhere as a reason to trigger this

18 posted on 02/14/2022 7:32:00 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: mewzilla

Pay special attention to the part on Orders and Regulations...


19 posted on 02/14/2022 7:33:31 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: livius

Somehow, they’ve never connected those facts…of course, masks don’t “work” against a virus either, which has been known since the start.>>> Some masks work. My 3m6000 (which i can’t wear to the doctors office) will work pretty good as a p95 and you exhale your co2 thru the valve. My mask protect me. which i rarely wear. i also have a dreager explorer. If there is another mandate it comes out just to scare all the kiddies. We haven’t had mask requirements for months since we told wolf to take a hike. and our courts have overruled almost all of the crap the commies are trying to inflict.


20 posted on 02/14/2022 7:38:48 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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