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No sitting government of Canada is allowed to violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

I just got back from the convoy, and what was most incredible was seeing people live freely. A steel drummer was playing Caribanna sounds. Feminists, interestingly enough, talking about free choice; Christian farmers, Siks, Iranians, Israelis, Saudis, Russians, Latinas. All religions represented. Everyone talking about importance of freedom, free speech, the human spirit and liberty. Very warm environment. Most social I felt in public in two years. Like a great awakening of humanity. People talking about Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, the Charter protections. Black, White, everyone just enjoying life.

Don’t like protests, huh?

The shift has finally started in mainstream media. I guess the sentiments of countless good, ordinary people can’t be shunned anymore: https://apple.news/ALGzfT1zhTWWF4KScUX6UIQ

No, because there is another person there, a vulnerable baby whose rights matter. Stop the false equivalence. The state is mandating vaccines, not abortion. China did coerce women to have abortions and Canada has definitely shifted closer to China ideologically.

Remove the totalitarian passports. Covid is everywhere and most working people aren’t worried. Most people are vaccinated and the vulnerable have ample protections. End oppressive government policies.

The convoy represents a massive national and worldwide opposition to the arbitrary and unwarranted suspension of rights and freedoms. In Canada these are enshrined in our Charter. In the US they’re in the Bill of Rights. Some will try to politicize, but all democratic parties should protect constitutional rights from government overreach.

I have to admit that Canada may be too far gone to the radical left. It’s especially bad in the media, where there’s a clear disconnect between the intelligentsia and the common working people. Listen to the way Heather Mallick of the Toronto Star describes the protesters: “And I’ve called them “little men” but they’re not. They dress like moonshiners, like paintballers, in the most unflattering parkas I’ve seen this winter. Collectively, they look like a batch of mashed potatoes demanding to run the country. It’s a cry for help.” We’re realizing that a large segment of our government and media think that the essential workers who have farmed and brought food to our tables throughout the pandemic really are losers. Of course, these same elites probably wouldn’t defend their country if it was under attack or help their neighbours dig out in a snow storm. They’re too precious for that. This is why I hope the protests grow and the general public sends a clear reminder that Justin Trudeau’s rule is only supported by a third of the country (according to polls). I’ve never seen newspapers and broadcasters produce such biased “journalism.’ As they said in the Soviet Union about the two major newspapers, “There’s no truth (Pravda) in the news (Izvestia) and there’s no news (Izvestia) in the truth (Pravda).” I do think that hardworking Canadians have good BS detectors. They know when the rules are unfair and our Charter rights are being violated without reasonable justification.

Vaccine mandates are like forced confessions. It’s not an honest choice when coercion is used.

GoFundMe is clearly taking a political position and preventing people from providing financial support for a political movement without justification. We won’t forget this shitty move.

There’s a major qualitative difference between forcing people to get vaccinated and show the proof to enjoy basic freedoms and requiring people to wear a seatbelt on penalty of a fine or loss of points. First off, vaccines don’t prevent you from getting Covid. They mitigate and people have differences of informed opinion on their value based on a year of their existence. Seatbelts existed a long time before they were made mandatory. C’mon. No sophistication in these arguments. The situation today with what we know about Omicron and vaccines makes vaccine passports and our mandates and restrictions ridiculous. Trudeau is simplistic. Our government is weak. Bunch of bandwagoners who can’t wait to mandate treatments and remove freedoms. It’s so lame. Canada sucks right now.

Yet we have to share our proof of vaccination with countless strangers to enjoy basic freedoms.

One of the hard but I believe necessary teachings of my Catholic education was the practice of youth abstinence, not because it was especially realistic but because it suspends sexual activity at a point in the individual’s young life when they feel a rush of hormones and intense desire both for sex itself and a close emotional connection. The problem is that it’s very easy to confuse these two forces. Ideally sex is an expression of love and a more than transitory desire to be with another person. People often get hurt and disappointed when they feel used and treated like a plaything when they really want that authentic connection. What’s more, young people may feel a lot of shifting feelings related to identity and orientation. The worst thing adults can do is start pushing kids to make life changing decisions like having a sex change or getting into a very physical relationship during this tumultuous period. I do understand the phenomenon of someone feeling like a male in a female body or the reverse. Such decisions as having a sex change are very serious. Deciding that you are homosexual is also a big deal. Basically it shouldn’t be a decision. It should be who you are. If you feel attracted to the same sex then that’s what you feel. That’s your reality, I think, and people should respect that. What we shouldn’t do is try to make someone be what they aren’t. Parents should be entitled to raise their children according to their values, as long as they aren’t abusive, and I don’t think the state should mess with child-rearing except where it can’t be avoided, such as when someone has no responsible guardian and must become a ward of the Crown. Science tells us there are two genders. Ancient texts support traditional family structures. However, our modern psychology teaches us that some people don’t feel like their biological bodies and some people don’t feel sexually oriented to the opposite gender. Making people be what they aren’t can cause suffering. I’m against suffering. I believe in God and I think God wants us to prevent harm.

The current mainstream parties are violating religious freedoms and imposing dubious ideology. Canada is a cultural-Marxist-nihilist totalitarian state. The federal leader won’t even meet with the leaders of a movement that represents a massive proportion of the population that Bloomberg says is in rebellion. Trudeau should trade oppression tips with Kim Jung-Un. https://apple.news/A5ild3Y85RJCD1pMObD2Phg

You’ll never vaccinate enough people to eliminate risk from Covid. Holding society hostage for two years when so many protections are available in our country is twisted and sadistic. We have Charter protections to stave off such tyranny because history has taught us about the creep into government overreach that is probably inevitable.

Farmers are joining the convoy. Protests also hitting provincial capitals. Governments and their media minions can’t deny what’s happening. People are furious about the fascist dictates.

You really don’t know what’s going on. There’s no vaccine mandate yet for under 12’s, though it’s probably coming once they’ve had more opportunity to get vaccinated. A vaccine is being approved for under 5’s soon. Vaccinating young kids is very controversial and parents have very strong opinions about discretion. My whole family is vaccinated but I wouldn’t want my kids to get a boost. I don’t think any of them really needed to get vaccinated, but it’s a precaution I suppose. I suppose.

Yeesh that’s how screwed up our priorities are. Trans issues is what we’re worrying about? We’ll be lucky to salvage half the freedoms in our Charter at this point.

I think you’re accepting a garbage, mandated form of existence from our government.

When money is needed to buy our most basic freedoms (supposed to be protected by the Charter), you know you’re in an oppressive country.

Freedom right now in Canada rests entirely on your level of income, because only independently wealthy people can afford to risk testing positive and having to quarantine. It’s really only a right for single people or couples, because what families can afford the PCR tests and the possibility that one family member will test positive, causing the whole family to quarantine? If you don’t have a couple of additional weeks vacation to burn after your trip, you can be fired if you’re forced to quarantine. Wealthy people can afford property and space to enjoy comfort while quarantining or under lockdown. The whole Canadian program of testing and making asymptomatic people who test positive and their family members quarantine is the biggest scam going. End all testing (except for sick people with possible Covid symptoms). End all mandates and restrictions. Canada right now is a fascist state run by out of touch elites who piss on essential workers like truckers.

I’ve pushed that Human Development Index stuff for years. Please teach me something new. You can’t have a serious conversation about freedom in Canada when we’re living under mandates and restrictions, and people are forced to carry vaccine passports to have reduced freedoms.

Based on what? Want to compare levels of freedom between the countries in Nazi occupied Europe? You’re living under totalitarian dictates that coerce you to obey a medical program to enjoy basic freedoms that themselves have been reduced to a shadow of the rights enshrined in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms (now a defunct historic document). Canada is an oppressive country now.

Most current governments in Canada are totalitarian.

Pure evil violation of your right to select medical treatment. Nobody’s business. Coercion through taking away someone’s livelihood and basic freedoms is pure evil totalitarian. Requiring a vax pass is horrific and pure slavery.