(Montreal) Quebec is finally planning to once again allow an exception to walk 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 and which prohibited going out after 8 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
“As currently drafted in the ministerial decree, the fact of leaving your residence to walk your dog is not one of the exceptions to go out outside of curfew hours,” the Ministry of Health and Human Rights said on Saturday evening. Social Services (MSSS) in an email to The Canadian Press.
“However, it is the government’s intention to include this missing exception again as soon as possible,” added MSSS spokesperson Marie-Hélène Émond.
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.