The following letter was sent to various Government of B.C. officials and copied to Delta Optimist
I listened to your press conference this morning (April 23) appalled and in stunned disbelief as it seems the government in this province now flirts with the idea of totalitarianism!
The travel restrictions between health regions that you are imposing are Draconian, blatantly unconstitutional and unenforceable. Your order will be challenged successfully in court, for this is a mathematical certainty.
Furthermore, it also places the police in the awkward and unduly position of having to enforce an unconstitutional order making any enforcement action they take pursuant to your order, overtly illegal! The police are concerned and nervous about enforcement of this policy, and rightly so. I suspect you and your colleagues have to be seen as doing something to fight this pandemic; unfortunately, this poorly thought out, feeble half measure will fail and it will not mask your government’s abysmal performance responding to this health crisis over the past year.
Your Provincial Health Officer knows full well that the unchecked spread of COVID-19 in this province, and now its many variant forms, centres around travel in and out of YVR and to a lesser extent, large gatherings of partygoers on beaches, in parks, on ski hills and on outdoor patios with little or no enforcement by law enforcement officials. Unfortunately, your travel restriction policy penalizes the very British Columbians that you want support from and therefore risk alienating them forever.
You and your government have lost the plot and many British Columbians are not buying what you are selling. Sentiment is everything in politics, just ask Doug Ford – Premier of the Province of Ontario!
Darrell Nay
