Remind me: Last week we reported on CrossFit 819’s decision to continue operating despite a gym closure mandate that began in December 2021, a decision that ultimately landed Miller in court last month. “Affiliate owners have gone through a lot, persevered and did everything they could to keep their communities moving and healthy,” he said. Still, he feels for Quebec gym owners.CrossFit’s Canadian Country Manager Paul Tremblay, for example, said that his gym CrossFit NCR in Ottawa, Ontario has been operating at 50 percent capacity for a year, but it “doesn’t affect my business whatsoever,” he said, as capacity rules are determined based off the fire code in the province, which theoretically still allows him to have 200 people in the gym.That being said, not all gyms in those provinces have experienced the same level of enforcement or devastation as Miller’s gym has. Gyms in the province of British Columbia on the west coast of the country, for example, have been largely open since the first wave of the pandemic, albeit currently with capacity restrictions, while gyms in the more eastern provinces of Quebec and its neighboring province, Ontario, have faced some of the toughest restrictions and longest lockdowns in the world. The Canadian scene: Like the United States, the extent of restrictions and length of gym lockdowns has largely depended on where you live. I also really want to make sure that in the future we can’t be shut down, so we can’t keep people healthy.
He added: “And it won’t change my Charter Challenge, because the bottom line is, that as long as they can keep doing this, we’re at risk of continually going deeper and deeper into debt… and if I go out of business, then I can’t help any of the people that rely on us.“If you just look back at the record… it was two weeks (of closures), and then it was another two weeks, then it was a month, then another month… they just do this over and over and over, so I totally don’t have any faith in the government (that this will be the last time),” Miller said.As a result, he’s continuing to push forward with a Charter Challenge-a legal challenge to the government because he believes his rights and freedoms have been violated-in an attempt to show that gyms are an essential service, and that it’s unconstitutional to close them down.
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