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TORONTO, Ontario, April 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Speaking from the provincial legislature of Ontario, a Canadian politician directly accused the province’s Premier for trying to create a “police state” after the Premier announced earlier this month new COVID-19 lockdown rules which would have allowed cops to stop and question people about why they had left home.
“Shame on them speaker. They have shown utter incompetence, they’ve shown disregard for the rule of law. They (the Ford government) do not represent Ontario, they do not represent their voters, they do not represent their party. They lost legitimacy to govern. You’ve lost the mandate to govern, and you should govern yourselves accordingly,” said Independent Ontario MPP Roman Baber last week in an address from Queen’s Park to Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
“And then last Friday, predicated on political advice, [Ford essentially declared] martial law – the unthinkable, the unconscionable, the unlawful, the undemocratic, an attempt to create a police state in Ontario thwarted by the police itself.”
Baber said that the Ford “government has lost legitimacy to govern,” due to what he listed as a myriad of COVID-19 lockdown-related unintended consequences.
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