A series of planned protests at hospitals in all 10 province against pandemic-related restrictions is being roundly denounced by federal party leaders.
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NDP Leader @theJagmeetSingh is vowing criminal sanctions to dissuade similar gatherings if his party is elected to govern. He said he would make changes to the Criminal Code to dissuade anyone from protesting near hospitals or health-care workers.
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Singh said a federal government can’t ban protests, nor can it limit where people can demonstrate.
“It is not the space, it is not the place to protest,” Singh said in front of his campaign plane Sioux Lookout, Ontario.
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Speaking in the rural Ottawa suburb of Carp, Conservative Leader @erinotoole said the planned protests are “completely unacceptable,” calling for unity even as he denounced Trudeau with sharpened personal attacks.
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“There is the ability to peacefully protest and things like this, but to harass and to try and block people from accessing health care in a pandemic is completely unacceptable,” O’Toole said.
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On the campaign trail, Liberal Leader @JustinTrudeau outlined a pledge of criminal sanctions for anyone blocking access to hospitals, vaccine clinics, testing centres, and those intimidating or harassing health-care workers.
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Trudeau said the Criminal Code already has provisions about intimidating people who work in the justice system, but there is now a need to protect doctors and nurses in a similar way.
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“It’s not OK any day to know that a nurse going into a late shift crossing a parking lot might be afraid that there could be someone there to spit on her or shout obscenities at her,” Trudeau said in his opening remarks in Vancouver.
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