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And who would decide what action endangers and what not? Does industrial and plastic pollution endanger? How about out of control logging and burning fossil fuel it doesn't endanger anything? The Glorious and Supreme Leader aka "Public Health Authority" will decide what's good for everybody, no questions asked, no evidence and explanation needed, no controls, accountability and oversight? If so, congratulations, we already arrived. And it wasn't even close to five centuries as with some republics in history.

Another Michael Hardner reference ? A 'Life is smooth for me, therefore you're a malcontent whiner if you disagree with me' . . . . . The CBC is a dog. Not relevant to anything that isn't Indian or Liberal . . . .

Democracy is not about "right" as abstract concept on paper it exists in China, Russia and North Korea, here look the right! It's about defending and protecting the rights and any right in reality. And these can be two entirely different entities. Like who promised that a check printed in some pretty brochure can always be cashed?

Point. But it isn't just Trudeau. It's every left wing social program and policy combined with a lack of worry about the money being borrowed to pay for them. Not to mention they're much of the driving force behind wokeness.

One is subjectively picking risks and measures to prevent them. Without argumentation, factual evidence, measures, balance of considerations, only on scary propaganda. Equivalence to drunk driving is a false one: drinking is a conscious choice, while vaccinations have small but very real side effects. Encouraging to not drink is not the same as forcing vaccination with a small risk of dangerous complications. And how is it different from dictatorship where any kind of restrictions on citizens freedoms can be justified by fear and propaganda?

I'm sorry, I misunderstood. Indeed making fun of "Commie Nazis" is like making fun of square circles.

Freedom of religion is a wonderful principle. Sometimes there are other principles, such as women not being owned property, that should override another principle.

1) 2) ok, I accept this 3) yep, that's why I am talking to you. I am worried, but I also think it's hard to quantify "biggest threat". 4) yep, that's why I am talking to you. I am more interested in publics and objective observations on new media than finger pointing. Of course I am biased though, so I hope you will forgive me if I don't agree with you 100% as I will forgive you. 5) Well, I am looking (in Canada) at violence, disunity and cost to GDP on both sides. I would like to hear how you can assess a bigger threat. If it's a 'gut feeling' then I am down with that, and you don't have to back it up any more than my gut feeling that it's vice-versa

Right, it's just too bad that the courts have decided to basically look the other way till the end of the pandemics. And who will decide when it ended? Right you are. Catch-22 and conflict of interest but I mean who even bothers to notice them anymore in this country?

Yeah I don’t want to live in some totalitarian nanny state where government decides how much freedom I deserve based on “public safety”. We’re supposed to have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms to protect our liberal democracy, including freedom of movement and the right to earn a livelihood. There’s simply no further justification for pandemic restrictions. Encourage people to get the jab, sure. Take precautions to protect yourself and your loved ones and let us live life free to use our talents to achieve what we can unencumbered by government overreach.

Did you even read the article? Nothing in the article says anything about Canada harbouring "communists," you just invented that whole cloth. Is that a pretty typical strategy of the far right on this forum?

My point was that the Feds don't ignore Quebec, they're constantly kissing their butts. Most of our Prime Ministers are from Quebec. Trudeau's electoral district is a short bike ride from the SNC Lavalin headquarters. The feds throw more bones to Quebec than any other province without a doubt. Francophones get a vast disproportionate # of federal jobs. Virtually everyone in the country living outside Quebec or French New Brunswick would need to spend years in french school to be able to run for PM. "We just want to be respected!". Give me break, all we do is bend over backwards for Quebec francophones. Quebec is treated better by Ottawa than any other province by leaps and bounds. We just want you guys to be happy but you never seem to STFU, you're always whining about something and then hate us for it. I could even stand the whining but then having a province filled with people who hate you, that's annoying. I don't hate francophones at all, but a lot of them walk around with a big chip on their shoulder. Put yourselves in our shoes for 2 seconds, we've been putting ourselves in yours for the last 60 years.

Unfortunately we all pay the price for their selfish choice. The vaccinated people can still get it from them and even die even though it will be very rare (thanks to vaccines) but it can happen especially those vaccinated who are immune compromised. And in addition, hospitalization will go up again and provincial governments may have to impose lockdowns again and we lose our normal lives again and will be locked in our homes again not to mention the economy will take a dive again and many of us will lose our jobs again. Not to mention a vaccine resistant mutation may arrive again as the unvaccinated people will allow the virus to thrive and mutate in their bodies. Public health and health of everyone supersedes selfish people who think they have a right which they do not have!. That is why we banned drunk driving and public smoking as for same reasons governments should find the balls to make vaccination mandatory or a ban on unvaccinated people to leave home and endanger others.

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