Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
However, in Canada, maximum fines for offenses are prescribed by regulation, and those sound like maximums for the offense which could be applied to the situation. If the government had the authority to apply an immense fine which in this context, many of us would consider appropriate, there would otherwise be a chorus of complaint about unrestrained bureaucrats going rogue. What has been done sends a signal, which remaining socially acceptable in a normal life context in Canada.
Pilot DAR. The mild VP-CVS penalties are equivalent to those recently levied for merely flouting CDN COVID border restrictions and Ottawa noise by-laws. That said, my remark about the figures is simply to draw attention.
Remember. It is not quite six months since Kovrig/Spavor were finally repatriated following a "vacation" (2018.12 to 2021.09) triggered by uncharacteristic efficiency at YVR in 2018. Over a matter with much less at stake.
As intimated in #63: border closure is one thing, enforcement another. In the present CDN context: intrusion made, wrist slapped; no tears shed, dominoes remain upright. Elsewhere next time?
Comprehensive global financial-&-ect sanctions for the win.