Restaurant owner Adam Skelly is already facing provincial and criminal charges after opening his restaurant for indoor dining for three days straight last November, in defiance of public health orders to contain the spread of COVID-19. Over the weekend, his Instagram account shared a screenshot of an invoice he received from the City of Toronto totalling a whopping $187,000. The city is seeking “to recoup its costs to enforce provincial public health regulations” that is spent “closing — and keeping closed — the Etobicoke (restaurant) under the Ministry of Health’s orders,” Andrea Gonsalves, a spokesperson for the city said over email. This includes the cost of staffing police — which made up the bulk of the bill at over $165,000 — as well as public health and licensing staff, boarding up the premises and the cost of a locksmith. Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...Dana Larsen, a Vancouver 420 event organizer, said that they have dealt with similar policing bills and that the administering of them seem to be at the whim of officials.

Source: thestar February 23, 2021 00:28 UTC