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Towing industry was not consulted on Emergencies Act: Graves

Towing industry spokesman Mark Graves says the Trudeau government did not ask the Towing industry for advice or input before announcing that tow trucks and drivers would be commandeered to remove vehicles under the Emergencies Act invoked on February 15th. Graves is the president of the Provincial Towing Association of Ontario.

“As far as commenting on what Prime Minister Trudeau or Chrystia Freeland has said, we won’t know anything until we’re handed something on paper which we can get a legal opinion on,” Graves told Road Warrior News in an interview.

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Trudeau’s Emergency Measures Act “completely, absolutely unnecessary” says Brian Peckford

Brian Peckford, the last living signatory of the Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms, poured some cold water on Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergency Measures Act on February 14th.

“This is completely, absolutely unnecessary,” Peckford said shortly before Trudeau announced his intentions to invoke the Act at a press conference with several of his Cabinet Ministers. No legal text of the order was tabled in Parliament, or is yet available at the time of this posting.

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Ontario to remove Vaccine Passport requirement March 1st, mask mandate remains

Ontario is moving up its timetable to ease COVID measures, with the next phase of measures being eased on February 17, 2022.

“Given how well Ontario has done in the Omicron wave we are able to fast track our reopening plan,” said Premier Doug Ford at a press conference held February 14th. Changes include eliminating the requirement for Ontarians to carry a Vaccine Passport to access specific locations such as restaurants and other businesses, although these businesses will have the option to require passports if they so choose.

Masking requirements remain unchanged.

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Ontario’s new Emergency Orders allow CVORs, licenses, certificates to be pulled

Despite anything in the Highway Traffic Act, where the Registrar or Deputy Registrar
believes on reasonable grounds that,
(a) the holder of a driver’s licence, motor vehicle permit or CVOR certificate has
contravened section 2 or 3 or has failed to comply with subsection 4 (2) or 5 (3); or
(b) the holder of a CVOR certificate was the operator of a motor vehicle that was used in
or during a contravention of section 2 or 3,
the Registrar or Deputy Registrar may, by order, suspend or cancel the driver’s licence, plate
portion of the permit or CVOR certificate.

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