SOURCE: Sloan and Hillier charged under Reopening Ontario Act – d1827 https://www.quintenews.com The Quinte Region's best source for news. Local News, Weather, Sports, Events Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:16:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 10 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/uploads/station/1674/squareIcon.png?r=48180 SOURCE: Sloan and Hillier charged under Reopening Ontario Act – d1827 https://www.quintenews.com 32 32 SOURCE: Sloan and Hillier charged under Reopening Ontario Act https://www.quintenews.com/2021/04/27/sloan-and-hillier-charged-under-re-opening-ontario-act/ https://www.quintenews.com/2021/04/27/sloan-and-hillier-charged-under-re-opening-ontario-act/#respond Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:54:26 +0000 News 2021-04-27T16:29:09+00:00 https://d1827.cms.socastsrm.com/?p=261065 MPP Randy Hillier (left) and MP Derek Sloan (center) in Ayler at a church service where both were ticketed for breaking COVID 19 restrictions. (Photo: Facebook 2021) Sources say Alymer Police have laid a Part 3 Summons against Hastings Lennox and Addington MP Derek Sloan, and Lanark Frontenac Kingston MPP Randy Hillier, among others, following a church service Sunday.

Quinte News has learned the police service has laid charges under the Reopening Ontario Act against a 36-year-old Stirling man, and a 63-year-old Perth man.  They have not released the names of the individuals.

Sloan, who is 36, lives in Stirling-Rawdon, and Hillier who is 63 and from Perth, were two of the speakers at the Church of God in Alymer.

Hillier tells Quinte News he has received summonses for other events in Peterborough and at Queen’s Park.  Hillier has a court date for Tuesday, April 27.

Penalties under a Part 3 Summons in Section 7.0.2 sees fines starting at $10,000, with a maximum of $100,000 and up to one year in prison.  Hillier adds he was told that the pastor at the Church of God has also received a summons, and penalties could be even more strict.

Estimates have about 200 cars in the parking lot Sunday. Many people inside on a live stream were seen not wearing masks or practising physical distancing.  Current lockdown rules have a cap of 10 people inside at religious services.  All those who were charged under the act have court dates in June.

Quinte News also chatted with Belleville Police Chief Mike Callaghan about the April 16 anti-lockdown rally.  Callaghan says they are pursuing charges under the Reopening Ontario Act.  Anyone in attendance not following the guidelines is subject to a summons or fine.

Sloan issued the following statement to Quinte News this afternoon:

“I suspect I fit the description of one of the charges though I have not been personally notified. The government has been too afraid to actually follow through on fighting any of these tickets in court, for fear of the obvious – that they will be ruled unconstitutional. Therefore I will appeal this ticket without any expectation of actually being convicted. Evidence is coming out in spades that lockdowns “are accomplishing little benefit, but colossal damage. So says Simon Fraser University Economics Professor Douglas W. Allen, who concludes “it is possible that lockdown will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in Canada’s history” after examining over 80 papers on lockdowns around the world.

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