Juno News - February 10, 2022


Ontario has no plans to end its COVID-19 mandates


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Ontario has no plans to lift the vaccine passport or the mask mandate. What on earth could be the reason for this? Why is this happening? Why are they holding on to these things that others have already gotten rid of?

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00:00:00.000 There's no use denying it, and there's no point delaying the inevitable.
00:00:08.000 COVID-19 rules are collapsing all across Canada.
00:00:12.000 We've got Saskatchewan pretty much doing away with everything.
00:00:15.000 Alberta doing away with almost everything.
00:00:17.000 We've got eastern provinces getting rid of a whole bunch of rules.
00:00:20.000 They were some of the provinces that had the tightest lockdowns previously.
00:00:24.000 And yet what's kind of interesting though is my home province of Ontario,
00:00:28.000 well, they're digging in their heels.
00:00:30.000 They're really not getting rid of these rules.
00:00:32.000 They have no plans to do away with the vaccine passport and the mask mandate. 0.88
00:00:36.000 And you say, what do you mean, Fury, no plans?
00:00:38.000 How can that possibly be?
00:00:40.000 We've got people all across the country saying,
00:00:42.000 come on, let's get on with this.
00:00:44.000 We've got public opinion polling showing that the majority of people say,
00:00:47.000 we don't need any more rules.
00:00:48.000 Just let people make their own personal choices
00:00:51.000 if they feel they need to take COVID precautions.
00:00:53.000 We've got chief medical officers all across the country,
00:00:56.000 Dr. Theresa Tam as well saying,
00:00:58.000 it's time to learn to live with COVID.
00:01:00.000 We've got to revisit all of these rules.
00:01:02.000 So how can it possibly be that Ontario has no plans to do away with some of these rules
00:01:07.000 when other provinces have gotten rid of all of them entirely pretty much?
00:01:11.000 What's going on?
00:01:12.000 Well, originally Ontario had said they would end the vaccine passport system on January 17th
00:01:17.000 and they would get rid of the mask mandate on March 28th.
00:01:21.000 But then they did something rather incredible.
00:01:23.000 They plunged Ontario into lockdown yet again in January.
00:01:27.000 And just to be clear, you don't need to check the timestamp here.
00:01:30.000 This is not talking about January 2021.
00:01:32.000 You're not watching a year old video.
00:01:34.000 I'm talking about January 2022.
00:01:37.000 Plunging the province into lockdown even then.
00:01:41.000 A lockdown that a lot of people certainly thought was unjustified.
00:01:44.000 A lot more people than past lockdowns.
00:01:47.000 More and more people have been saying as the months have gone by.
00:01:50.000 Okay, enough of this.
00:01:51.000 So what are the plans now if January and March were the times to get rid of the passport and the mask mandate?
00:01:56.000 Well, now the plans are, well, they have no plans.
00:01:59.000 What do you mean they have no plans?
00:02:00.000 Well, they have a reopening roadmap.
00:02:02.000 They updated it on January 20th.
00:02:04.000 They talk about the gradual and cautious reopening of Ontario.
00:02:08.000 They use those words so often, so many times in their documents.
00:02:12.000 And they talk about an easing of different capacity limits and indoor gatherings.
00:02:17.000 March 14th, that's the latest announcement.
00:02:19.000 They say that's going to be the sort of final reopening announcement, March 14th.
00:02:23.000 But guess what?
00:02:25.000 It keeps in place the vaccine passport system and the mask mandate forever.
00:02:31.000 Well, I don't know about forever, but there's no indication when they're lifting it.
00:02:34.000 Christine Elliott was actually asked about this at a press conference.
00:02:38.000 And she said, yeah, there's no plan to lift the mask mandate or the vaccine passport system.
00:02:43.000 Now, Brian Lilly did press Christine Elliott on and she said, okay, we're not planning to keep these things in forever.
00:02:48.000 And I guess we can lift it sooner if necessary.
00:02:52.000 But she never offered a date.
00:02:54.000 What on earth is going on?
00:02:55.000 Did they not look around and see what's happening in the world?
00:02:59.000 See what's happening throughout Canada?
00:03:01.000 That this stuff just ain't happening anymore.
00:03:03.000 Jurisdictions everywhere are lifting these things.
00:03:05.000 And yet Ontario stubbornly digging in their heels and saying, we're not going to budge.
00:03:11.000 Well, I don't think folks are going to like that very much.
00:03:13.000 I think you're going to see a lot of pushback on all of that.
00:03:15.000 And I have no insider knowledge to back this, but I anticipate things are going to move sooner.
00:03:21.000 And Christine Elliott and Doug Ford are maybe previously saying they're going to move.
00:03:25.000 We shall see.
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