Juno News - April 05, 2020


Social distance or pay up!

Topics
social distancing fines and invasiveness
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Brampton
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3 minutes

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620

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34

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A man was fined $1,000 for being in the ocean by himself in California and a woman in Prince Edward Island was fined for being with more than 5 people who don't live at the same address. In other words, they were in violation of the Health Privacy Act, which requires people to stay within a certain distance from one another when they are outside of their homes. And yet, the police are out in force in more and more cities across Canada.

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00:00:00.000 If you have been watching my last couple of videos here on True North, you'll know that
00:00:08.680 I have been closely monitoring the authoritative overreach happening right now amidst the coronavirus
00:00:14.040 pandemic. So what's new since last week? Significantly more cities in Canada are
00:00:19.560 instituting fines and penalties for those who are not social distancing. In other words,
00:00:24.680 for those who are not keeping six feet or two meters apart when they're outside of their homes.
00:00:29.680 So you can be outside to walk your dog or go for a run, the authorities are saying,
00:00:34.720 but you must stay two meters away from everyone else unless you live at the same address. Otherwise,
00:00:39.240 you can get fined or worse. In Cochrane, Alberta, two teenage males were sitting in a car and each
00:00:46.020 of them got fined $1,200 because they were in violation of the Health Privacy Act and they
00:00:52.780 weren't social distancing. Fortunately, the ticket was withdrawn, but this does show that the police
00:00:59.080 in the RCMP, they're ready to fine you. They're ready to go. In Prince Edward Island, a 38 year old
00:01:04.860 woman from St. Edward actually was fined $1,000 for being in a gathering of more than five people who
00:01:11.860 don't live at the same address. So the concern here is that now authorities can stop you basically
00:01:18.100 anywhere, the street, the park, wherever, and they can interrogate you about your life and you might
00:01:24.700 have to show ID to prove your address or something like that. So this really has the potential of being
00:01:29.080 too invasive and getting out of hand. And in California, if we look to our neighbors to the
00:01:35.140 south, a man was stand up paddle boarding in Malibu Pier alone in the ocean and was arrested for a
00:01:42.880 disobeying a lifeguard and b violating the state's stay at home orders. This paddle boarder was taken
00:01:49.880 to the sheriff's station and told he must appear in court where he could be fined $1,000 or get six
00:01:57.120 months in jail or both. Again, he was in the ocean all by himself. And there was a similar incident to
00:02:05.140 this. A man was fined $1,000 for surfing at Manhattan Beach in California. And this is all in the name of
00:02:12.400 social distancing, of course, and looking out for these the safety of these men as you know, the ocean
00:02:18.280 could be transporting the virus or or the blustering coastal winds could be transporting the virus all
00:02:24.540 over the place. But back to Canada, in Toronto, a new bylaw has come into effect enforcing social
00:02:31.160 distancing. Or you could be fined up to $5,000. And Brampton has done the same thing. But their maximum
00:02:39.100 fine is $100,000. And of course, it's heresy at this point, it's completely socially unacceptable to be
00:02:46.600 skeptical of any of these social distancing measures. You have a lot of people defending
00:02:52.000 these fines and saying, Oh, you know, people are just so stupid. They're COVID idiots. We need these 1.00
00:02:56.600 fines to get these stupid people in line. And you know, you're accused of killing old people, 1.00
00:03:03.240 you're being selfish, you're risking other people's health, etc. But I think we need to be asking
00:03:08.500 questions here about what makes sense and what doesn't.
00:03:12.780 That concludes my video. But True North Nation, we're asking anyone who can to donate to a food
00:03:18.780 bank or donate to a local charity that's helping people through these hard times. A lot of people
00:03:23.160 have been laid off, lost their jobs, etc. And there's not really an endpoint in sight. So if you
00:03:29.300 can, we at True North really appreciate any help you can provide. And with that, thanks so much for
00:03:35.420 watching and bye for now.