Covid Clowns Now Handing Out Tickets for Shaking Hands
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Ontario criminal lawyer here.
Flip those tickets and check off Option 3. You'll get a court date in 6-whothefuckknows months and the Crown will withdraw the charge. It's just a measly provincial offence; the Crown doesn't want to spend resources or set a precedent losing to a Charter application from the defence.
Each ticket costs the government - the courts have to deal with the ticket and that's public money wasted.
The cops are wasting money each time they write these.
Not only are they wasting time, they are creating a huge backlog. People with non-covid tickets and actually did something wrong are going to get away with us because if your court date is more than a year out your ticket gets dropped.
I've heard people justify bylaw officers as "just doing their jobs". Well, if their jobs are to enforce stupid as fuck rules then they should be told to fuck off. The whole system is a bunch of armed enforcers "just doing their jobs" led by a government which can't actually be made to change by any single person, so they should be impeded in "just doing their jobs" every step of the way.