Zeitgeist

Scrap mask mandates immediately. Most US states have. Make N95 masks available to those who want them. I think most people won’t bother with them, but the vulnerable should have that option.

According to you.

Just a little trucker protest. Your questions illustrate arrogance and a complete refusal to acknowledge the massive movement against mandates and restrictions across the country.

The courts are one venue in which the public can challenge policy. Protest and influencing MLA’s in the House of Commons is another. Appealing to the GG and Senate is another.

Not really. Sometimes parties are on the right side of history on issues and sometimes they are not. Trudeau has overplayed his hand. He thinks that having won a minority government in September entitles him to ignore a massive opposition to his government’s current pandemic policies. Policies can change. If Trudeau won’t change them or justify his actions in an open debate with the opposition and protest movement, then he is behaving like an arbitrary dictator.

You’re just wrong. The government isn’t respecting the constitution and has policies that run counter to the will of more than half the population. If they start clearing out protestors, that will be a declaration of war by the government against its people (the Commons). Neither the police nor the army will support that. They are loyal to the Crown, not Trudeau. The Crown defends the Commons.

Ha, if Trudeau attempts this, it will mark the end of his career as a politician. It could lead to the dissolution of Confederation, because the West won’t accept it. Either will rural Ontario and a good portion of urban Canada. People come to Canada for freedom, not oppression.

Are we seeing the government turn on its own citizens for exercising their constitutional rights? Shouldn’t the Governor General be talking to the PM about addressing the fair concerns behind the massive protests against mandates and restrictions? If Trudeau refuses to meet with organizers and welcome an open dialogue on pandemic policies, it would be reasonable and important for the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and force an election.

Sure but we have reasons to be concerned about what’s happening right now with government overreach.

This is the biggest irony of all. It’s the anti-Liberals who are the ones having to safeguard all the rights and freedoms that Liberal Pierre Elliott Trudeau worked to enshrine. What does it tell you when feminists with signs saying, “My body, my choice,” are walking arm in arm with Pro Life Christian farmers protesting the government mandates and restrictions? It tells me that government is violating our rights and freedoms as Canadians.

No you’re following the government-mandated script perfectly. If the people don’t demand a return of their Charter protections, they will remain suspended indefinitely. Trudeau is seeing what he can get away with. The world is watching for sure and international bodies are seeing if the top-down schemes for controlling human behaviour worldwide can be implemented. Canada’s sovereignty and constitution are at stake, nothing less.

She’s an interim leader. Not speaking French or English very well is okay, as long as you can use one of the official languages in Parliament. People can learn languages.

We hold these truths to be self-evident…

How you treat the least of my brothers is how you treat me.

We hold these truths to be self-evident…

Yeats too. The gyres. Cycles of history. Spengler. Old Testament stories of the Israelites bouncing between the desert and the promised land. The eternal story of the uprising of humanity from the wilderness, Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. Frye’s Great Code. Dante’s Divine Comedy. Contrapasso. It’s the story of people trying to remove their chains, like right now under mandates and restrictions.

Normalized state control. Totalitarianism.

They just want mandates and restrictions gone.

Wear all the masks you like. Make your informed decisions about your health and don’t you dare try to dictate my health protections or anyone else’s.

Where does government get its authority? From the will of most Canadians. Canadians chose a free country with constitutional protections. Winning an election doesn’t give a government the right to ignore those protections. I’m not going to argue with someone who wants government to oppress people. You have a lot to learn. Governments must respect the Charter.

Ha ha, you have no clue who the protesters are. A small band of unvaccinated? I’m triple vaccinated. There were signs saying, “I’m fully vaccinated now back off.” Enough with the attempt to micromanage people’s lives like some kind of sicko Frankenstein dissecting people like they’re soul-less objects. People have an inner light, a yearning for freedom that your need for impossible safety purity can’t squelch. Charter freedoms over health puritanism.

Au contraire, the protesters are safeguarding your Charter rights, otherwise your opinions and the views of the people can be ignored in the name of public safety during a crisis. Basically the crisis is the suspension of rights.

Adding more requirements to the passports (i.e. third vaccination) will just prove what everyone opposed to mandates is saying: Once government mandates certain care to enjoy basic freedoms, our Charter rights as citizens to freedoms are compromised, and there is no check on the requirements governments impose on the public to enjoy basic rights. Government must not be allowed to ignore our guaranteed rights. We can’t perpetuate crisis rhetoric to justify maintaining government overreach. That’s what dictatorships do.

Good question. There are rare moments in history when the current ethos is untenable. The centre cannot hold. This is very ancient spiritual stuff. William Blake wrote about this, the human/spiritual realm verses the dark satanic mills. Today it’s the human world versus the digital world. St. Augustine’s City of Man and City of God. We can live under fear of punishment or by faith in humanity.

Minority rights to basic rights and freedoms are protected in the Charter. That’s the point. No referendum necessary. The people want to be free. End all mandates and restrictions immediately. Anything less is arbitrary and indefensible, certainly at this point.