Zeitgeist

No one is keeping you from getting a vaccine. You are coerced into having all family members except infants vaccinated. I’m triple-vaxed by the way. My concern is entirely about medical discretion and other critical civil rights that are currently being violated.

Yes and this is the blindness of our zealous governments. They have a list of requirements that people who were born here with citizenship now have to meet in order to enjoy the rights of citizenship. You must carry a vaccine passport with mandatory shots to live freely. What’s more, as an unvaccinated person you will be vilified and mistreated. Instead of racial purity it’s public health purity that our government is pushing at all costs. Our Charter protections are routinely ignored.

False equivalence. First of all, I don’t have to present my immunization records to eat in a restaurant or travel by plane or train from London, Ontario to Ottawa. The C-19 vaccines offer some protection and there is no decisive science on their value in very young children. For many months we were told most unvaccinated kids are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Some countries aren’t supporting the vaccination of children in their public health policies. How many vaccines would you have required on kids’ passports and how frequently would they need to get them? This is slavery to public health puritanism that isn’t even on solid scientific ground. It’s unethical. I actually can’t believe that this wasn’t at the core of a Charter challenge, but I think many challenges are coming. What a mess. I will tell you this, federal and provincial governments, law suits are coming. Your governments and you personally will share in the liability.

Get real. For some people travel is a necessity. Vaccine passports for children to travel and enjoy basic freedoms is fascist.

Anti-Charter government overreach 100%.

There’s no decision with regard to children if you want to travel outside the country or take planes and trains inside Canada.

Our government supports humanophobia.

That is NOT what the movement and its supporters represent in the least. The game to discredit opponents is to accuse them of racism/misogyny/extremism. Trudeau paints all opponents with the same brush. Jagmeet Singh NDP leader plays this game too, but of course his own brother supports the freedom movement and donated $13,000 to the cause before Singh desperately asked him to rescind it. Lol. Sorry Singh, not going to work this time.

End all restrictions and mandates immediately. Restore freedom and respect our Charter rights. Canada, look at your closest allies. They’re not doing it this way Faith over fear.

Oh I think Canada is very compromised by foreign influence and in real danger of being written off by our allies as unwilling to protect our constitutional democracy. It’s not a future possibility. You’re witnessing the clash of grassroots freedom-loving regular Canadians against an elitist leadership that is totally insulated and disconnected from what essential workers face on the frontlines each day.

You live in a de facto totalitarian society right now. This is the phenomenon of the frog in the pot of water that is slowly brought to a boil. You cannot access basic freedoms without a digital passport. You can lose your job without this. Our restaurants and arenas are closed. We must wear masks indoors and cannot gather in groups. Our Charter is routinely ignored without debate through executive orders. Arbitrary rule by fiat. The mental health and well-being of our children and elderly has been seriously compromised. Our government continues to violate freedoms, destroy businesses, and stomp on minorities. This in one of the world’s most vaccinated countries. There’s no visible exit under our current government’s approach because Covid will remain no matter how many people are vaccinated. We must live with it as we do with the flu and restore freedoms. There is no guarantee that restrictions and mandates will end.

It reminds me of a tyrant’s desperate attempt to slam the door against opponents before climbing onto the roof to catch the helicopter and flee. To bring in mandates now when Covid restrictions and mandates, including masking and vaccine passports, are being eliminated in Britain, Ireland, Denmark, France, most US states, and in other modern western democracies is oblique and radical. The Charter is so violated that the country faces an unprecedented constitutional crisis. I’m not sure Canada will emerge from this as a free society.

Yes that’s correct. The mandate against truckers was brought in by Biden after Trudeau brought it in. Tit for tat. We have our great leader to thank for imposing more violations of rights on our population.

I can’t believe how backwards our federal government is. The US has lifted indoor mask mandates in all but 5 US states. Meanwhile we still have parts of Canada in lockdown. So sad what’s happened to Canada.

I’m surprised and disappointed that you’re piling on against the protesters who clearly rely on posters like us to articulate their very valid frustrations. For God’s sake, the protest isn’t about whether or not vaccines can be a great protection against Covid. It’s about extreme and persistent government overreach that violates Charter freedoms and minority rights: freedom of movement, assembly, religion, speech, medical discretion, etc. When one of the constitution’s writers and Canada’s foremost intellectual are denouncing government measures as unconstitutional, we have damn good reason to be concerned. The convoy is trying to push back against totalitarianism, pure and simple. There’s simply no other way to put it. Denouncing protesters as radical morons is a dangerous lie. Regular middle of the road working people and their children are trying to raise valid concerns about how much they have given up these last two years on government orders: socializing, sports, family gatherings, seeing each other’s faces, businesses collapsing, restrictions on movement and travel. How much longer can Trudeau and governments defend these measures?

Stop it. There were very few radical flags. The upside flag signifies distress.

It’s about a lot more than masks. Know anyone who has lost their job because of mandates? Even the masks are reason for concern. I wonder how many more years have to go by before you realize the gravity of the overreach. Of course the longer the mandates and restrictions continue, the more they become normalized, so maybe you’ll just forget what you’ve lost.

Bullying? You mean oppressive far-reaching restrictions and mandates that are a breach of our Charter rights?

Tragic I tell you!

Faith over fear.

Is the coverage overall positive in your opinion?

Let’s hope it’s all peaceful. I think it will be. Any clowns who stir up shit will speak for themselves.

Faith over fear.

There’s a lot of fear of false flags. Such events become triggers. Think of Franz Ferdinand. I’m sure Russia and the US have similar concerns in Ukraine. Cooler heads must prevail.

If the government is seen to be working against the will of the people, the Queen/GG can dissolve it. The PM job isn’t a permanent position.