Doug Ford is sending the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to parks, threatening parents with young children playing together, that the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) could be contacted if they disobey the provincial lockdown order.
Kotzma was at the Havelock Community Centre park with her daughter on Sunday, April 18 with 11 other children and eight adults when two Peterborough County Doug Ford’s OPP officers attended the park and threatened to call CAS and have to children removed from the parents custody.
“Threatening to call CAS because of neglect is little over the top,” says Tiffany Kotzma.
On Friday, April 16, the Ford government announced unconstitutional COVID-19 measures, including prohibiting all outdoor social gatherings and organized public events, except for with members of the same household or one other person from outside that household who lives alone.