A group of 12 people who refused to wear masks and wanted to speak during the Pitt Meadows council meeting, ended up delaying the meeting by an hour this week.
During the Oct. 26 regular council meeting, 12 people entered city hall refusing to wear a mask while in the facility, claiming they had medical exemptions. According to Mayor Bill Dingwall, the corporate officer informed him and councillors just before the meeting was about to start that this group was refusing the provincial mask mandate applicable to everyone entering the city hall.
“As the mayor, I am responsible for running council meetings here, and under the community charter I have that authority to run a council meeting and make sure that it is not disruptive, and to say that an hour lost is not disruptive would not be correct. It was,” he said at the beginning of the meeting which started an hour late.
When asked later about the delay, Dingwall told The News the group claimed its members were all…
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