The central issue with invoking the Emergency Act is twofold: First, it is a step too far in consolidating state power against dissenting citizens. Second, police already had the tools they needed to deal with the occupation in Ottawa but chose not to. If the police had exhausted all their options first (which are routinely used against Indigenous and climate change protestors) then Trudeau may have a case. This did not happen.
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A battle of ideas surround Covid-19. Vaccine mandates offer hope for us all
Remember that the current vaccine passport system is an alternative to another lockdown situation. It is the opposite of a lockdown - lockdowns shut down society, the vaccine passport is an attempt to reopen society and get back to normal. The tiny minority of anti-vaxxers are the ones keeping this pandemic going; it's time for them to get out of the way.
Public health over profit: Covid-19 is surging under Jason Kenney
"The cure cannot be worse than the [virus] itself," said Donald Trump back in March. It seems like Jason Kenny and Tyler Shandro have taken Trump's words to heart. The dynamic between the two and Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's Chief Medical Health Officer, echos the uneasy tension between Trump and Anthony Fauci.
The Conservatives are hostile towards those we need the most
If we were to wonder about an alternate future in which the Conservative Party of Canada was in power during the current pandemic, we wouldn't need to use our imaginations to understand how they would govern. The track record of Conservatives currently in power speaks for itself.