The city of Toronto is asking the owner of an Etobicoke barbecue restaurant to pay $187,000 in costs it incurred when police tried to enforce COVID-19 lockdown orders at his business last year. In November 2020, Adam Skelly, the owner of Adamson Barbecue, flouted the city’s COVID-19 restrictions that prohibited bars and restaurants from providing dine-in services. Toronto police called on the business multiple times in attempt to enforce the rules, and Toronto Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa eventually ordered the closure of the establishment located on Queen Elizabeth Boulevard. Skelly, at a press conference last week, said that his lawyers are preparing for a constitutional challenge against the Ontario Reopening Act, which will be the “most broad and vast” challenge against the emergency order ever seen in Canada, he said. “The government is completely overreaching in an effort to close down small businesses and destroy our …