The Calgary city council has put some heft behind its mask bylaw, a day after Alberta’s deadliest day of the pandemic.
Calgary’s mask bylaw will continue until the end of 2021 unless the pandemic circumstances like mass vaccination change, and lead the administration or council to decide to amend or repeal the bylaw.
Repealing the bylaw would be a straightforward process of drafting a new bylaw to repeal the old one.
Fines under the bylaw have also gone up, from $50 per infraction to $100 for the first, $200 for the second, and $300 for each infraction afterward.
The $50 fine was first in place because being the first Alberta municipality putting such a mandate in place, they were unsure about compliance rate. At present, the time for education on mask-wearing has passed.
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