Lilley: Back in April when Premier Doug Ford said he was giving police the power to stop people and ask them for identification to find out where they were going, people got rightly upset. The move was seen as a violation of Charter rights — which it most certainly was — and the government backed down.
Now, many of the same people who didn’t want police to have the power to enforce the stay-at-home order are demanding the government give the power to a clerk at the Bay store or a waiter at your local restaurant to demand personal medical information.
Some people, including some politicians and plenty of people in the media, think that if you can’t show proof of vaccination, then you should be excluded from going to the store, to a restaurant, on a flight, or to a concert. Such a move would, as many business owners and operators have told me, turn them and their staff into the vaccine police.
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