Ontario is amending widely criticized new measures meant to contain surging COVID-19 case counts.
It comes a day after Premier Doug Ford announced anti-pandemic powers that allow police to stop motorists and pedestrians and ask where they live and why they’re not home.
Along with many other services in the province, St. Thomas Police had advised Saturday morning “we will continue to engage, explain, educate and enforce in a fair and unbiased manner. We will not be randomly stopping people. We will continue to police with the same common sense approach we have used since the beginning of the pandemic.”
Solicitor General Sylvia Jones says police will no longer have that power.
She says officers will only be able to stop people they have reason to believe are participating in what she calls an ”organized public event or social gathering.”
Ford also says rules ordering the closure of playgrounds will be rolled back to keep the facilities open.
