Two well known and controversial local politicians won’t be making any more court appearances on charges laid against them in the spring of last year.
Both former Independent Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP Derek Sloan and former Lanark Frontenac Kingston MPP Randy Hillier were charged for violating public health orders when COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were in place.
The Ministry of the Attorney General says the Crown has now stayed those charges, which means the case is essentially dropped but the Crown can reactivate it within a year.
Sloan and Hillier were charged for participating in gatherings in Norfolk County, in the London area.
Meanwhile Hillier was charged under the Reopening Ontario Act on April 16 of last year by Belleville police after speaking at an anti-lockdown rally at Zwicks Park.
That matter is still before the courts.
