COVID fines won't go to MRC

Prefect: ‘That doesn’t seem fair’

Despite its officers doing all the heavy lifting in busting recent house parties for violating COVID-19 public health rules, the MRC des Collines isn’t going to see a penny from fines given out to those party-goers — or anyone else similarly fined for that matter.

“The MRC feels it’s a little unfair that we’re being charged for all the police services, but the money goes to the province,” MRC des Collines Prefect and Chelsea Mayor Caryl Green said in a Nov. 2 phone interview.