Police in N.L. now have sweeping powers to enforce pandemic public health orders

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This is about Labrador and Newfoundland. Maybe it’s time to retrain those wonderful dog breeds from rescue to attack.

From the CBC:

Opposition negotiated expanded categories for approved entry under new bill

CBC News · 

The Newfoundland and Labrador government gave sweeping new powers to the police to enforce public health orders under the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Fifteen MHAs sat in the House of Assembly Tuesday to amend the Public Health Protection and Promotion Act, authorizing officers to stop vehicles, enter any premises, and detain people and take them to the border if they are not complying with public health measures.

 

“You can be put on the Marine Atlantic ferry and sent back to Nova Scotia,” Premier Dwight Ball told reporters in a virtual scrum Tuesday afternoon.

 

Bill 38 gives inspectors powers to enter any premises, take samples, conduct tests, make copies, and take photos or videos. It also allows them to inspect premises, processes, books and records.

 

The law also protects lawmakers, the chief medical officer, inspectors and peace officers and others from personal liability.

 

Ball said the changes are only in effect during the province’s public health emergency, and allow those orders to be enforced if someone arriving “needs to be sent back where they came from.”

 

“It’s extreme, by some people’s estimation,” Ball said. “Yet [it] was a requirement to make sure that the RCMP and the RNC would be able to enforce the special measures orders that were put in place by the chief medical officer.”

(So if you are from somewhere in Canada you can be sent packing back to where you came from after total invasion of privacy. But people who enter Canada illegally and lie and deny at every stage of the process? Will they be sent back to Somalia or anywhere else in Africa or the Middle East?)

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8 Replies to “Police in N.L. now have sweeping powers to enforce pandemic public health orders”

  1. Welcome to the Communist/Fascist world of the left. Once the Governments seize this type and amount of power you will need either a strong Federal Government to Remove them of the people will have to remove them.

    That is as far as I can go without becoming involved in Canadian Politics and I try to avoid that.

      • Thats been dead since JFK backed down from the Soviets, hopefully Trump will revive it and revive it soon.

        • Not dead, dormant.
          Anyway, not as dead as JFK and the Soviet Union..
          PT’s got a grip on our historical arsenal, as did Prez Reagan.

          • A thought just occured to me, consider the courage of James Madison declaring that the European Nations had to leave South and Central America alone with the way the Dem politicians are always giving in to our enemies aborad. When Madison made Declared that Everyone had to leave South and Central America along the Us was a fairly weak nation compared to even the weakest of the European nations. When the Dems give in to China, Russia and Iran we are the strongest nation on earth.

            This is what happens we we elect crooks, cowards and wanna be Dictators.

    • They have soft focus, cuddly notions about communism.
      You can see it in the flags they fly, on their T-shirts, whom they quote.
      Schools stopped teaching history, as we know it. It’s all:
      evil white imperialist misogenist Christian slavers…
      What’s left but the flip side? Negation. And the Left really does that well.