A courageous business owner, Adam Skelly, has openly defied big government in their shutdowns or lockdown rules across the GTA. He is sticking his middle finger up to tyranny, and for that we should all support him. Rights cannot be taken away.
00:00:00.000As most of you know, I'm a law-knower guy, and it is through that lens that I see most issues.
00:00:12.400A clear exception is the spectacle, or debacle if you will, that the Adamson barbecue situation in Toronto has become.
00:00:20.140A courageous business owner, Adam Skelly, has openly defied big government in their shutdown or lockdown rules across the GTA.
00:00:31.380Skelly owns Adamson barbecue in Etobicoke, and has refused to knuckle under to draconian government edicts and shut his business and his means of making a living down.
00:00:42.120The premier, Doug Ford, and the mayor of Toronto, John Tory, have both taken umbrage at this horrid little man that dares to defy them.
00:00:54.820Tory has sent in Toronto police for several days in a row now, and they have laid thus far nine charges that carry incredibly high fines against Skelly and his business.
00:01:06.860Fines that could bankrupt his business.
00:01:10.200All Skelly has done is to continue to cook slow-roasted barbecue beef and to serve his customers,
00:01:17.200who, by the way, have also been threatened with fines for the offense of showing up and buying some barbecue beef on a bun.
00:01:25.260Doug Ford should go searching for the common sense he once had when he came into office.
00:01:31.500Perhaps he left it in a jar behind an office door.
00:01:34.240This morning, after changing the locks on the restaurant yesterday, the Toronto police took Skelly away in handcuffs and shut the restaurant down again.