Seems like they were just setting it up to absorb backlash. They get to shut down schools and lockdown province and do everything they wanted, but they got the public to direct rage at some swings being closed and some extra police powers the police are refusing to use. They get to walk back those and say sorry and public will stop complaining, but the province/country is still in lockdown and the government gets to tell you what is essential to your way of life and if your job is worth being allowed to operate or not and your children are basically confined to day cares and online schooling and no one complains anymore. The showed the government and made them open up the parks again.