{"id":86292,"date":"2021-09-26T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=86292"},"modified":"2021-09-26T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T14:16:58","slug":"regional-police-department-in-canada-will-not-enforce-vaccine-passport-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=86292","title":{"rendered":"Regional Police Department in Canada will NOT enforce vaccine passport regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor says Peel police won\u2019t respond
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Brampton | Mississauga | COVID | Latest News
\nPosted by Jeffrey Allen
\nInBrampton<\/p>\n

According to Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, the Peel Regional Police won\u2019t be enforcing the new provincial regulations around vaccine passports.<\/p>\n

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The information came to light during an exclusive interview with insauga.com publisher Khaled Iwamura broadcast on Instagram Live.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeel police told me they wouldn\u2019t be enforcing it. I spoke to the chief, and he told me he doesn\u2019t have the resources,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not going to take people off a gun or gang or domestic assault case to attend to a vaccine certificate issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown said enforcement will then fall to local bylaw enforcement officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut bylaw department doesn\u2019t have the resources for this either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown said he talked with provincial officials this week asking what the plan for funding enforcement is.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t just tell people to call local police or bylaw and have no plan to enforce it. So there is an enforcement problem now. The provincial government has downloaded that responsibility to municipalities and it would be naive to suggest there are police or bylaw officers twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown said police and bylaw officers are already too busy to deal with things like petty thefts. \u201cThey\u2019ll tell you to just call your insurance company because they don\u2019t have the officers available.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re working on other, more serious, issues.\u201d<\/p>\n