Vancouver’s Corduroy Restaurant ordered to close for defying COVID-19 vaccine passport

One other British Columbia restaurant has been ordered to shut for defying the province’s COVID-19 vaccine passport necessities.

Vancouver Coastal Well being issued Corduroy Restaurant in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood a closure order on Wednesday for non-compliance with the BC Vaccine Card and an order requiring masks in indoor public locations.

The Metropolis of Vancouver confirmed the restaurant’s enterprise licence has additionally been suspended till Dec. 31.

1:59Fraser Well being takes Hope, B.C. restaurant to court docket to pressure closure

An individual who answered the telephone on the restaurant Wednesday afternoon declined to remark.

However a put up on Instagram stated the enterprise could be closed for the day to, “strategize the best way to greatest transfer ahead with out jail time, however nonetheless make use of our employees, maintain a roof over our heads and permit a secure area for many who consider in medical privateness, freedom and non-discrimination.”

Underneath the BC Vaccine Card mandate, persons are required to indicate proof of immunization to entry pubs and eating places, cinemas, indoor sporting occasions and quite a lot of different non-essential providers.

1:48Supporters of Rolly’s restaurant rally in Hope, B.C.

Corduroy has refused to examine vaccine passports because the vaccine card was carried out final month, and in September a employees member advised World Information the restaurant had switched to counter service solely, in what seemed to be an try and discover a loophole in vaccine card laws over whether or not desk service is concerned.

The provincial well being order enacting the vaccine passport, nonetheless, is evident that it applies to all liquor-licensed institutions, no matter whether or not desk service is concerned.

3:51B.C. well being officers say everybody must adjust to vaccine card guidelines

Proprietor Rebecca Matthews has been a vocal opponent of COVID-19 restrictions since at the very least the spring, when she spoke at an anti-COVID restriction rally in Vancouver and tried to defy a “circuit breaker” order shutting eating places on the peak of the pandemic’s third wave.

The restaurant was served with a brief closure order in April over that dispute.

One other B.C. restaurant combating the province’s vaccine passport system was in court docket on Wednesday, combating an injunction software from Fraser Well being in search of to close its doorways.

Rolly’s restaurant in Hope, B.C., has additionally been ordered to shut, and has had its liquor and enterprise licences suspended.

A B.C. Supreme Court docket decide is predicted to supply their ruling on that injunction on Thursday afternoon.

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