Other provinces have moved ahead quickly with their bubble zone protections, including Nova Scotia, Quebec, Alberta (in a different way) and most recently Saskatchewan on Nov.

Kelowna RCMP said they are investigating, but the tools available to police – public mischief charges, or uttering threats, for example – don’t quite match the repugnant nature of what’s happening. Without such a law, idiot protesters are apparently able to scare and upset vulnerable kids and seniors with few penalties. The government should add veterans to that list, to protect Remembrance Day ceremonies in the future. The BC government has pledged to introduce some sort of bubble zone legislation that would make it illegal to protest outside of certain locations, to prevent the intimidation of children and health care workers. Some people, including elderly veterans with medals pinned to their chest, tried to confront the anti-vax crew, but the lead woman just kept shouting into the microphone, according to a video of the event posted by local news site KelownaNow.īut it fits into a larger trend we’ve seen of anti-vax protesters targeting sensitive locations to try and garner publicity – elementary schools, health care sites, and hospital emergency rooms, to name a few. They were all upset,” one witness told CBC News. Some of them were crying, some were yelling. “All of a sudden we heard a lot of booing and screaming and commotion, and then we saw veterans … storming out. What’s the holdup?Īnti-vax protesters crashing a Remembrance Day ceremony in Kelowna is another wake-up call to the BC government that it needs to introduce a robust “bubble zone” law as quickly as possible.ĭozens of people opposed to vaccine mandates interrupted a ceremony at Kelowna’s city cenotaph on Remembrance Day, infuriating local residents and veterans who were there to pay their respects to fallen soldiers. Rob Shaw: The NDP promised a bubble zone law in September – but yesterday, protesters ruined a Remembrance Day ceremony.

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