Millionaire couple pose as cleaners and fly 1,000 miles to skip queue for Covid vaccine
A casino boss and his actress wife boarded a private jet to a remote part of Canada for a Covid-19 vaccine intended for an elderly and high-risk First Nation community
Rod and Ekaterina Baker are accused of flouting COVID-19 restrictions for a vaccine
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A 55-year-old Canadian casino CEO resigned after he and his 32-year-old wife were nabbed for misleading authorities by traveling to a remote territory in Canada and posing as motel workers in order to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Rod Baker, head of the Great Canadian Gaming Corp, a $2 billion company, and his wife, Ekaterina, flew from Vancouver to the Yukon Territory, on the border of Alaska, for the vaccine.
Yukon Territory, home to mostly Indigenous peoples, has a smaller population and a higher rate of vaccination than the rest of Canada.
'We are deeply concerned by the actions of individuals who put our elders and vulnerable people at risk to jump the line for selfish purposes,' said Chief Angela Demit of White River First Nation.
A motion by the Yukon NDP calling on the government to bring in a moratorium on rent increases until next summer was shot down in the legislative assembly last Wednesday.
NDP Leader Kate White had provided a notice of motion that day in the legislature asking for the moratorium.
The motion was defeated by an unlikely combination of both the Liberals and the Yukon Party voting together. Only the NDP was in favour.
“The Liberals have abandoned Yukon tenants,” White said.
“We’re in the middle of a pandemic and some tenants are facing hundreds of dollars in monthly rent increases. The government had an opportunity to fix this problem and they chose to do nothing,” White added.