Winnipeg’s mayor wants to clarify the roles and responsibilities of city workers in enforcing COVID-19 restrictions. City bylaw officers enforce city bylaws in city parks while “community ambassadors” educate people in parks about physical distancing rules, Mayor Brian Bowman said at a Wednesday morning press conference. “For all other spaces… the provincial government is responsible for the provincial government’s public health orders,” Bowman said.
Meanwhile, provincial public health inspectors appear to be only enforcing COVID-19 restrictions at businesses, rather than the province’s communities at large, Bowman said.