Despite Northern Health, Liquor Board, and WCB all doing actions against the Lambda Cabaret over the past couple of weeks, including a visit to the nightclub and to her private residence, the nightclub remains open and with no plans to change what owner Linda Allen describes as legal and lawful operations of her business. In her words, “the government and public health have been breaking laws, not her.”

Allen says she has not once violated a liquor law, and she will follow the laws and regulations in place for operating her type of business.

Any kind of discrimination on her customers is out of the question she states. They are free to wear or not wear a mask or to be vaccinated or not. It is not her place to tell anyone what to put into or onto their body and that is a right under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada.

Recently, BC’s Public Health Officer Bonnie Henry lifted measures that had closed nightclub type businesses not serving food. Dancing and mingling were off the table for BC residents, but are now back after a February 16 revision to health orders.

Allen hopes that people will dance and mingle the way it is their right to do so.

M. Smith | Staff Writer | PG Real News