Opinion: It’s important for residents to know their rights during Ontario’s lockdown
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Ensuring we keep up accountability of those of authority is important
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the Ontario government issued a province-wide state of emergency beginning on December 26, 2020 and since then, it has been extended to the lockdown we are currently in with no designated end date.
This means that people are told to not leave their homes unless for essential services, such as grocery shopping, essential work, exercise, etc. But this leads to the question of accountability, specifically, how is such a broad order being enforced? Countries like Italy near the beginning of the pandemic had a legal form for people to book times to leave their homes, but we’re not seeing any of that.