Bill will protect health care workers, educators and small business owners from harassment
With the resumption of the Ontario legislature, NDP leader Andrea Horwath is wasting no time introducing a bill to create safety zones around schools, hospitals, clinics and small businesses.
Horwath says the bill will protect Ontarians from protestors.
The party leader says "No one should have to walk a gauntlet of hate to get to school or a hospital. No small business owner should see their livelihood slip away because of constant harassment on the sidewalk in front of their business. No health care worker should face intimation, especially not when they’re been working tirelessly for the past 18 months to save people from COVID-19."
Horwath’s bill would make targeted harassment of people and businesses upholding public health rules in Safety Zones a provincial offence, punishable by a fine of up to $25,000.
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