How long will Canadians support social distancing?
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Summary
It's a delicate balance right now, properly enforcing Social Distancing Measures, police and bylaw officers doing the right thing but not going too far. It's a balance that needs to be struck, because if the law goes too far, if enforcement officers go too far and public support wanes, then public support will start to diminish.
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it's a delicate balance right now properly enforcing social distancing
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measures police and bylaw officers doing the right thing but not going too far
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recent poll by Leger shows that the vast majority over 90% of Canadians support
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the social distancing measures that are happening across this country wow that
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is remarkable support levels no politicians ever seen any numbers like
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this in this country it shows we're all in this together for now because if the
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law goes too far if enforcement officers go too far public support well that's
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gonna start to diminish there's been a couple stories that have left people
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scratching their heads and being rather frustrated in the east end of Ottawa a
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father took his young autistic son out to play in a field not a playground not a
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baseball diamond not an official public park a grass patch sort of owned by the
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city or what have you a piece of land looked around made sure there was no one
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within 500 meters of him how many hockey stick lengths are that but still an
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enforcement officer showed up wrote down that father's license plate number and
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simply said to the guy $700 fine and got back in his car and drove away now the
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man didn't receive a physical ticket and he's wondering what's gonna happen if he
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actually gets one in the mail he's prepared to go to court to fight it but I
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think we can all agree that's wrong let's be reasonable we cannot all stay
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cooped up in little coffin sized spaces for the next few weeks the next few
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months during this summer time when kids have to get exercise adults all of us we
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need to go out and have a little bit of a walk so let's use our good judgment
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here a rather sad story from the Montreal area there's a lady who had a
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birthday and her friends wanted to surprise her because of course she
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couldn't have a birthday party so what happened was that the friends drove up in
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their cars one person per car rolled down their windows the cars were spaced
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apart from each other and they sang happy birthday to the lady she watched from
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her front door how far apart is a car to a front door I don't know 15 meters 20
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meters something like that the cars drove on the enforcement officer comes by
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later $1,500 fine for disturbing the peace really people really where are our
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priorities and there are a lot of things going on that maybe should be more
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enforced perhaps there can be directives to go after that not this cheap shot
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low-hanging fruit quite frankly it's really frustrating to see people say oh no
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those illegal border crossers we must protect them the most they are more
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important now than ever and some people were actually dismayed to see Justin
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Trudeau closing the Roxham Road border crossing we're hearing a lot of concerns
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about inmates in prisons we've got to release them right away and so forth lots
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of prioritizing for them for them to sort of have it easier but the otherwise
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law-abiding middle-class the working Joe know we're gonna make life more and more
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difficult for you even when you're doing something in the case of these
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examples I gave that really isn't that big of a deal so yes we're all supporting
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this we're all in this together but as the weeks continue as the weather gets
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warmer a lot of people are gonna say come on guys let's just use our judgment