(Montreal) Quebec no longer provides an exception for walking his dog during the curfew that came into effect on Friday.
The decree specifying the terms of the curfew in effect from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. does not grant an exception to walking a dog, as during the one that ended last May.
The Canadian Press has confirmed the information, first relayed by Radio-Canada, by consulting the order number 2021-096 of the Minister of Health and Social Services which bears the date of December 31, 2021.
During the previous curfew, a decree specified that a person could derogate from it “for the needs of his dog, within a maximum radius of one kilometer around his residence or whatever takes its place”.
The exception was then detailed between those allowing to attend a service station and that allowing to accompany a person needing assistance, exceptions which appear in this decree and in the same order.
The Quebec government website page detailing the exceptions still mentioned this dog exception on Friday afternoon, but it was no longer there on Saturday.
Asked by The Canadian Press as to whether the absence of this canine exception was intentional or an oversight, the office of the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, referred to that of the Minister of Public Security, Geneviève Guilbault, who fired the ball to “Health”.