N.S. man gets ticket on purpose for walking in woods to fight fire-safety ban
Global News
Jeff Evely, a People’s Party of Canada candidate in the April 28 federal election, was fined almost $29,000 for violating a Nova Scotia fire-safety ban on entering the woods.
A week has passed since the Nova Scotia-wide ban on entering the woods came into effect — and some citizens are already testing its limits.
A Cape Breton man’s videos went viral over the weekend after he went to the Department of Natural Resources office in Coxheath and announced he was going to go into the woods in protest.
“I want to challenge this order in court, and the only way to do that is to get the fine,” Jeffrey Evely said in the video. “So I’m not trying to make trouble for you guys, I just want a piece of Tim Houston and I want to be as accommodating and nice as I can be.”
One of the officers replies: “Okay, so I’m ordering you to not.”
“Okay, roger that,” Evely replied in the video.
Evely, who stood as a political candidate for the People’s Party of Canada, received thousands of comments on his videos. Some called his actions a cry for attention, and others were outraged on his behalf.
“If I defy their orders to go into the woods, then I will be fined,” he explained in his video. “So I’m gonna walk down here… And go into these woods.”
Wayne McKay, a professor at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law, said the way Evely had gone about making the video could harm his defence.
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