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Happy birthday, Dana Hubbard.
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For her 38th birthday, the province gave the Port Hope woman four tickets, totaling $ 3,490 in fines, for allegedly failing to establish a COVID-19 vaccine passport border point at the door of her small restaurant. .
When I first spoke to you in September about the venerable owner of the No90 Bar in downtown Port Hope, I wrote “for serving her customers, Dana Hubbard could end up being served herself.”
It has happened, apparently.
“I cannot conscientiously participate in creating segregation among a community that has shown my support and love of business” and, “we are pro-choice in Local,” he wrote on Facebook at the time.
She told me that Port Hope police initially stopped at her home to warn her.
She has now been fined by the local health unit under the province’s Ontario Reopening Act.
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The good news is, he didn’t have numerous police officers in his little bistro, like what happened Saturday at JAKK Tuesday Sports Pub in Kingston or the dozens that closed down Adamson Barbecue in Etobicoke.
Hubbard is still in business. But for a small restaurant with a local clientele, the fines are a big setback because the total fine is higher than it would bring in for a week.
It’s an outrageous excess that could put your business in jeopardy if you consider you’re not cooking meth, but instead serving locally sourced burgers and wings paired with Ontario beers and wines.
She is a good person. She is a Canadian dreamer who relies on capitalism and the freedom to create her own work and improve the community with a quality establishment outside of the corporate sphere.
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However, it has fallen prey to a widespread state that pressures anyone who dares to protest against the Orwellian practices that have become the norm.
If Port Hope’s most troublesome criminal is Hubbard, they’re doing it right.
She is not above the rules, but there are times when discretion is warranted. There is no reason to throw the book at him when politicians have committed pandemic violations.
From weddings to going to country houses, the rules don’t always apply.
However, they do apply to Hubbard. It seems to be public enemy number one.
“They want the girl next door with the little business,” he said.
They should at least wish you a happy birthday.
Reference-torontosun.com