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Rights lawyer Julius Grey knows of few people who are contesting Cool off safely this Photo: Montreal rights lawyer Julius Grey says he has had almost no clients contesting tickets issued for breakiong COVID-19 distancing rules or for travelling from region to summer! region without proper authorization. So, since the beginning of the COVID-19 region to region. “I don’t know that there’s any pandemic and all the restrictions that have rule that you can’t go from one district to another. come with it, were you among the people Where would it come from? Would it have been reported to have received tickets from the legislated by the cities? By the province?” police for not obeying distancing rules Grey wondered whether the tickets in ques- or for leaving your region without proper tion might actually have been issued for another authorization? offence. “Are you sure they weren’t speeding at the same time? Or something that’s more conven- MARTIN C. BARRY tional?” he said. He said the only case with any Local Journalism Initiative Reporter similarity he dealt with recently involved a man For The Laval News [email protected] who was being prevented by the COVID-19 lockdown rules from crossing from Quebec into Ontario. Where are they? Handled just one recent case Reopening of some swimming Montreal lawyer and human rights specialist “I had a case where a man who lived way up Julius Grey would like to know the whereabouts north on the Ottawa River, and had a business pools and splash pads of those who were ticketed. Because as far as he’s in Ontario and a residence in Quebec, wasn’t concerned, few if any have come his way over the allowed to go to his business,” he said, noting past few months to contest the constitutionality it was an inter-provincial issue, rather than an of the charges brought against them. inter-regional one. “He had to argue back and The Laval Police Department issued statements forth. But in the end they agreed to let him towards the beginning of the pandemic in March through when he said he’d go to court.” June and April that they were indeed ticketing people He suggested the law, if any, creating the restric- Gradually in public places who were visibly not maintaining tions might have been vague. “Initially, they said a proper 2-metre distance from others on playing no one should go very far, that you shouldn’t go fields and in public parks. downtown or to other places,” he said. “But for starting Broke travel restriction instance, I go to visit my mother in Côte St. Luc 20 and I live in Westmount and nobody has ever As well, The Laval News heard at least one stopped me. They may have meant Laval and the unverified anecdote involving a woman from island of Montreal being separate regions and Laval who claimed she was ticketed by police for otherwise you can anywhere you want within leaving the Laval region and crossing over the those regions. Lachapelle Bridge into Cartierville, ostensibly in violation of provincial rules forbidding travel Show me the law, says Grey from region to region during the COVID-19 “But I’d like to know what is the basis,” Grey pandemic. added. “There has to be a law. You can’t just issue Adding insult to injury, the story continued, a ticket if there isn’t a law. So there has to be To find out which pools and splash pads she claimed to have been issued a second ticket either a provincial law or regulation or a muni- when trying to cross from Montreal Island over cipal one. But I’ll bet there’s not a municipal one.” are open and what rules to follow during to the South Shore on the same day. The Laval Grey said he hadn’t heard from anyone News tried to authenticate the story from the complaining about being forbidden to move the COVID-19 pandemic : woman in question, although she declined to about as they wished because of COVID-19 June 24, 2020 • be interviewed. travel rules. “Nobody has come to tell me that swimmingpools.laval.ca or 311 However, a friend of hers told us that the woman he has been prevented from going somewhere,” received two tickets amounting to $1,500 each he said. and that she is currently fighting them through “I know that in some areas, if you come from Ticket911, a Montreal law firm specializing in the Montreal, they’ll make you quarantine, because The Laval News contestation of traffic tickets issued in Quebec. Montreal is more affected than other places.” As Grey unsure about rules well, he said he had no clients contesting tickets for non-distancing, while acknowledging that the “I don’t have any tickets of that sort,” Grey said police were indeed actively ticketing the worst in an interview with the Laval News. At the same offenders. “Nobody’s ever come to me with a • time, he expressed doubt as to whether there ticket like that,” he said. 3 ever was any specific rule about moving from Opinion & Editorial THAT’S WHAT Entitlement? Not the best way I’M THINKING for English Québec to fight the Robert Vairo government for status quo in How Did Things Ever Get So Far? control of schools “How did things ever get so far. I don’t know” The line is from the scene in the Godfather where Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) seeks peace from the warring heads of the five All practical rights arise by agreement. Rights ition of the provisions of Bill 40. The charac- families. How DID we get so far, so fast? What is happening? An unprepared world for an only become practical when we all agree to teristics of the controversial Bill for the angry- incurable Covid-19, a world economic shutdown, governments printing trillions of dollars respect and protect that right for each other. phones are: factors associated with innovation, with no plan on how to resolve this massive debt, police brutality, protests, riots, killings. The ultimate criteria for judging any right is staff, curricular coherence, increased parent and You and I have never witnessed our world in such a turbulent state. Will all this be resolved? whether it serves the best good for everyone. community involvement, and greater student I do not have an answer. That’s where Bill 40 comes in. engagement. Agree with it or not, life moves It’s business as usual for Elon Musk who continues to make Teslas and rocket ships that At its worst, the public debate by the Anglo on and it is business as usual for the MEES. sends humanity into space. It’s business as usual for swindlers, identity thiefs and organized minority groups is partisan, shedding more crime seizing another opportunity to milk an untold amount from Canada’s billions handed heat than light on the subject. Putting ideo- Electoral calendar out in CERB. It’s business as usual for the stock market that has in large part recovered its logues on both sides of the question against The Electoral Calendar has been published and losses of the last three months. It’s business, no where near as usual for businesses.