Action4Canada - Removed From Pitt Meadows Council Meeting
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the ban on wearing a mask in public, and why it is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We are joined by the mayor of Pitt Meadows, Tanya Goss, and Councillor Amina Simpson to discuss the issue.
Transcript
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Well, it's now 7.20 and the Pitt Meadows Council has disappeared.
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They've kind of, they were about to start the meeting and then we didn't wear our masks
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Are you guys having a protest in here? No, no. We're just trying to. We're just waiting for our
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friends. I don't see that this is a protest. I wanted to hear what Amina Simpson has to say.
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So you want to hear what the mayor says. You want to hear what
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Councillor Simpson says. You want to hear what Tanya Goss says.
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I just want to know why the council was delaying this meeting.
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The policy that just came out from the government said that no order or act
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supersedes that if anybody has reasons they can't wear a mask,
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Now let's go outside and we can discuss this further.
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This is a free country. Do you understand what you're participating in here?
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We're trying to do this. We're trying to do that right now.
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You haven't provided me anything from the criminal code that says that I work in law.
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We'll also enforce provincial statutes and municipal statutes.
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But if you knew the law, you understand that there is no provincial statutes that can supersede.
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But you staying here is also a continuation of the offense right now.
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Okay, but what I'm asking is what have I done to break the law?
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I think Charter Act has that power to ask you for this building.
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No, we're not going to sit and show you right now.
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The mayor said, the mayor said, the mayor said, the mayor said, the mayor said.
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Could you just go for our twelve-year-old girls?
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Social media posts from the BC Lions home opener detail people taking pictures near
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You're shameful. You're supposed to uphold the law.
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Do you guys understand what you are doing to your country,
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what you're contributing in? You're the front line for the tyranny.
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I sat there quietly six feet apart from anybody else with an idea that I was going to have the
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right today to express myself. I've been respectful. I've obeyed the law.
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If a person presiding in a council meeting considers that another person at the meeting is acting
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improperly, that person presiding may order that that person is expelled from the meeting. If a
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person who's expelled did not leave the meeting, a peace officer, may enforce the order under
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subsection one as if it were a court order. Absolutely. But I'm just wondering where
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were we acting properly? By not wearing a mask, that's what the mayor said.
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Okay, so we've been sat here for almost an hour. They said nothing to us, right? It's okay,
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at least say something. Nobody's come up to us. They asked us and we said we do have exemptions.
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They actually said it was okay. They said it was okay. The mayor asked you to leave. Under the civic
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Because this is our workplace, the rules are set fit to leave by the provincial health bodies for that.
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The second one is that I know that my council colleagues that are here at the dais have all
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been double vaccinated. And in fact, I've had a third vaccination about three weeks ago. And so
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we have the, as colleagues, we have the comfort of knowing that we've all been double vaccinated or greater.
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we have to be Connected to a community of disconnected