{"id":4232,"date":"2020-07-21T23:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2020-07-21T23:33:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:33:28","slug":"tory-candidatederek-sloan-asks-which-canadian-big-city-mayor-has-gone-totally-w-h-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"Tory CandidateDerek Sloan Asks “Which Canadian big-city mayor has gone totally W-H-O?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<\/td>9:02 PM (2 hours ago)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Toronto Mayor John Tory is really excited about Ontario\n\nentering Stage 3 of reopening and bars and restaurants opening up\n\nagain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, what he\u2019s really excited about is slapping\n\na whole lot of regulatory restrictions on them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, Tory sent a letter to Premier Doug Ford containing\n\nsix recommended rules to be imposed on these establishments, which\n\nhave absorbed a catastrophic financial hit due to the COVID-19\n\npandemic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tory is calling for mandatory masks for all staff and\n\npatrons, earlier closing hours, occupancy restrictions, and for all\n\npatrons to provide contact information that is to be kept for 30 days,\n\nto allow for tracing as needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow! Where to begin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asking everyone for their contact information is not going to\n\ngo over well. That\u2019s a bit of a safety issue. They might get a lot of\n\nfalse information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, as with the mandatory facemask rules, you have\n\nto wonder whether recommendations like these are really about\n\nprotection\u2014as is claimed\u2014or politics. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tory says that \u201cexperts\u201d believe that masks keep people safer\n\nand that restaurants and bars pose a higher level of risk for the\n\nspread of the coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are these the same experts who were saying back in\n\nMarch that masks weren\u2019t necessary outside of hospitals, and that\n\nanyone who suggested that the borders should be closed was a\n\nracist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all want to stop the spread of COVID-19. We\u2019ve all made\n\nextraordinary sacrifices toward that end. No businesses have\n\nbeen hit harder than the hospitality industry. Many of them have\n\nclosed and are never coming back. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some cases, establishments built by generations of hard\n\nwork and dedication are gone forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent Leger poll shows that a national average of 22% of\n\nCanadians will avoid bars and restaurants for as long as masks are\n\nmandatory there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all need our country\u2019s economy to rebound from this\n\nsetback, and bars and restaurants must be part of the resurgence. We\n\ndon\u2019t need politicians like John Tory making the hard road back even\n\nmore difficult for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Tory\u2019s recommendations are evidence of state overreach, which\n\nhas reared its ugly head during this crisis. Using the pandemic as a\n\ncover, it imposes draconian limitations on our freedoms in the name of\n\nthe common good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who voice opposition are shouted down as selfish and\n\nreckless, and the statists consolidate their power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once given up, these freedoms will be difficult to regain.\n\n
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John Tory is also calling for mandatory masks in\n\nresidential apartment buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadians who feel more comfortable wearing a facemask should be by\n\nall means do so, but masks should not be made mandatory.\n\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Re-openings of businesses should be done responsibly and safely,\n\nbut without being hamstrung by statists who, having had a taste of\n\nauthoritarianism, are hungry for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remain 100% opposed to making any eventual COVID-19\n\nvaccine mandatory for Canadians.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will continue to guard against any unjust\n\nlimitations of our rights introduced in the name of public safety or\n\nother invocations of the \u201ccommon good\u201d. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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