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Announcement on paid sick day enhancements coming in near future: House Leader
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Last Updated Apr 21, 2021 at 2:49 pm EDT
Ontario Premier Doug Ford walks out after being given a tour of a digital Intensive Care Unit room at Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital in Vaughan, Ontario on Monday, January 18, 2021. The new hospital is being opened to take patients from other hospitals that are strained by COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Doug Ford’s government will be announcing “additional enhancements” to paid sick days in the “very near future,” Ontario government house leader, Paul Calandra, said at Queen’s Park on Wednesday without providing further details.
Halton Regional Police Chief Steve Tanner has also made it clear his service won’t be backed into a corner by the new guidelines.
“The @haltonpolice has always, and will always work closely and in cooperation with our citizens,” he tweeted. “During this next COVID-19 phase we will continue to engage, explain and educate our citizens. Enforcement will be a last resort and only when absolutely required for public safety.”
Peel Regional Police Association President Adrian Woolley said no matter what, his members will not be participating in anything that goes beyond what they are entitled to do constitutionally.
“I believe that these new measures called for by Doug Ford are in direct conflict with our Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” he tweeted. . “Further, they place all of our active frontline members in an untenable position when directed by politicians to enforce these measures.”
COVID-19: Ontario Solicitor General On Modified Police Powers
Ontario Solicitor General Sylvia Jones speaks briefly with reporters at Queen’s Park on the provincial government’s newly announced restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease). Following a public outcry, the government announced it would modify measures related to increased powers for police officers to enforce its stay-at-home order. In a statement released on April 17, Jones said police officers will no longer have the right to make random stops of pedestrians and motorists to demand a reason for their travel and to request their address. Police will now only be allowed to stop people if they are suspected of taking part in an organized public event or social gathering. (April 19, 2021) (no interpretation)
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You can’t have a police state if the police won’t co-operate.
On Friday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones announced tough lockdowns including police stopping people to ask where they were going. Unless on the way to get groceries, to a medical appointment or other government approved activity, Ontarians were subject to large fines.
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Solicitor General Jones said: “Moving forward, police will have the authority to require any individual who is not in a place of residence to, first, provide their purpose for not being at home, and provide their home address,” meaning motor vehicles could be randomly pulled over.