Ex-Great Canadian Gaming CEO is Court No-Show on Covid Vaccine Tourism Rap

Former Great Canadian Gaming CEO Rod Baker and his wife Ekaterina, an aspiring actor, were well-chosen to pilot from Vancouver to Yukon Territory allegedly to parachuting the COVID vaccine line. But they weren’t so eager to take over the journey to come out inwards courtyard Tuesday.

The Globe and Mail reports that the Bakers failed to go to their firstly tribunal hearing for breaking Yukon River quarantine rules. Their lawyer, Jennie Cunningham, was present, however, and successfully applied for an adjournment for ii weeks. She cited on-going discussions between the Crown prosecutor and the couple’s effectual representatives.

The span were charged on January 23 after receiving their vaccinations inwards Beaver Creek, a little community a stone’s cam stroke from the Last Frontier border. The townsfolk is rest home to the Theodore Harold White River First Nation and was among the foremost communities inwards Canada to receive the shot.

Gaming the System

The Bakers, who are 55 and 32, hired a flight of steps from Whitehorse to an airstrip a mil outside Beaver Creek. There, they allegedly told faculty at a peregrine vaccination clinic they had been lately hired as hotel workers and were thus eligible for the jab.

But the distich stood come out same millionaires at a remote Yukon Territory mobile vaccination clinic. They were stopped up(p) on their takings to Whitehorse Airport and supercharged below the Civil Emergency Measures Act with flunk to self-isolate for 14 days and “failing to turn in a fashion uniform with their declarations upon arriving in the Yukon.” They were initially fined C$2,300.

But the story of the two wealthy vaccine tourists run into a raw nerve, and not just among the biotic community they unthinkingly endangered. The story made headlines around the world. Yukon Territory authorities reviewed the affair and the charges were upgraded. Now the mates could face up to sextet months inward prison.

Meanwhile, they are not expected to receive their indorse dosage of the vaccine until octonary or Nina from Carolina months after their first.

‘This is Not Forgotten’

The Globe and Mail wheel spoke to ane adult female who had made the five-hour drive from Beaver Creek to Whitehorse in desire of seeing the Bakers held to answer for for their behavior. Janet VanderMeer was inward the line of business with the duad at the clinic, on with her elderly fuss who is receiving alleviator care.

This is not resolved, this is not forgotten,” she said, despite the adjournment. “I assure nothing less than them having a conversation with not just now myself, but with my people, and perchance some members of the community, and where they put up possess upward to what has happened.”

Baker resigned from his position at Great Canadian Gaming after a decennium at the helm simply days after the story surfaced.

The company’s shareholders had just now sanctioned a $1.9 1000000000 takeover past private equity heavyweight Phoebus Apollo Global Management. It owns and operates to a greater extent than 20 casinos inwards British people Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.