'Ontario Goes Communist' in COVID Lockdowns: Checkpoints at Borders, Churches Restricted, Playgrounds Closed

Pete Baklinski : Apr 19, 2021
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"We have implemented the strictest measures in all of North America. Understand the restrictions will be strongly, strongly enforced." -Premier Doug Ford

(Toronto) – [LifeSiteNews.com] Using modeling predictions that have historically proven to be unreliable, the government of Ontario added two more weeks to the already month-long stay-at-home order while burdening citizens with additional restrictive measures that include a 10-person limit at church services, cracking down on travel, closing playgrounds, and stepping up enforcement of rules already in place. (Image: via LifeSiteNews)

"We have implemented the strictest measures in all of North America," Premier Doug Ford said this afternoon during a press conference at Queen's Park where he announced the measures that come into effect on Saturday, April 17 just after midnight. 

Places of worship will be capped at a maximum of 10 people indoors, beginning Monday.

Checkpoints will be set up at all of the province's interprovincial borders with Quebec and Manitoba to clamp down on people trying to enter the province. It is unclear if the new measures will be able to withstand a challenge based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that grants "mobility rights" to citizens.

Big box retail stores will be reduced to operating at 25 percent capacity and playgrounds, basketball courts, golf courts, soccer fields will be closed down.

Ford made it clear that those who do not follow the rules will experience the iron fist of the law... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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