In 2019 I bought a hat "Canada is Already Great" in maga hat red. Yes I got called white supremacist on 2 occasions wearing it. I genuinely did believe Canada was already great.
I haven't wore that hat recently, I would never because the article is right. Canada has fallen. We literally have political prisoners right now.
Freedom of the press? Not in Canada. The government 'accredits' who is a journalist. They give billions each year to the news orgs that wont criticize the government. They also passed a law saying any entity which received money from an american organization, for example advertising for an american company, cannot criticize the government. Otherwise it's foreign interference.
Freedom of speech? Not in Canada. They have abused 'hate speech' laws not to stop people like nazis or westboro baptists... but rather to silence political critics. Worse yet we now have compelled speech. Jordan Peterson became popular because of the compelled speech around trans folks. Covid brought in a ton more compelled speech in Canada.
Freedom of religion? Not in Canada. >50 churches have been burnt to the ground. Firefighters wouldn't put the fires out in some cases. No law enforcement ever investigated or caught anyone. The government quite publicly has been arresting pastors and shutting down religion. As an atheist there was a time that I would be enthusiastic to see this but now seeing it... what a disaster.
Private property? No search/seizure. They seized bank accounts of political opponents without a court order or conviction. Denying them the right to eat or live. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1494123825876897797 Lametti is a lawyer, attorney general, and law prof. He spoke concisely and clearly there on ctv.
Freedom of assembly? Right to protest? Clearly not the case anymore as per article. How many indigenous protests have been crushed? Now they crushed the freedom protest as well? A democracy without the right to protest is not a democracy.
Equality under the law? Not if you don't want to take their medicine. You get to lose your job.
Get to participate in society? Not if you don't want to take their medicine. You get to stay home.
Freedom of movement? Not if you don't want to take their medicine.
Vaccine restrictions are mostly lifted everywhere I'm aware of. Whether or not they were justified, it's hard to argue that they were unreasonable when it was a common response in many countries around the world.
I'm sympathetic to concerns about free speech and in no way believe that Canada is perfect, in fact i dislike many of the choices we've made recently, but the way you've stitched this together reads as histrionics and catastrophizing.
Canadians, for better or worse, do not have the same fetish for noone-tells-me-what-to-do freedom as Americans.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 14.5 ms ] threadI haven't wore that hat recently, I would never because the article is right. Canada has fallen. We literally have political prisoners right now.
Freedom of the press? Not in Canada. The government 'accredits' who is a journalist. They give billions each year to the news orgs that wont criticize the government. They also passed a law saying any entity which received money from an american organization, for example advertising for an american company, cannot criticize the government. Otherwise it's foreign interference.
Freedom of speech? Not in Canada. They have abused 'hate speech' laws not to stop people like nazis or westboro baptists... but rather to silence political critics. Worse yet we now have compelled speech. Jordan Peterson became popular because of the compelled speech around trans folks. Covid brought in a ton more compelled speech in Canada.
Freedom of religion? Not in Canada. >50 churches have been burnt to the ground. Firefighters wouldn't put the fires out in some cases. No law enforcement ever investigated or caught anyone. The government quite publicly has been arresting pastors and shutting down religion. As an atheist there was a time that I would be enthusiastic to see this but now seeing it... what a disaster.
Private property? No search/seizure. They seized bank accounts of political opponents without a court order or conviction. Denying them the right to eat or live. https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1494123825876897797 Lametti is a lawyer, attorney general, and law prof. He spoke concisely and clearly there on ctv.
Freedom of assembly? Right to protest? Clearly not the case anymore as per article. How many indigenous protests have been crushed? Now they crushed the freedom protest as well? A democracy without the right to protest is not a democracy.
Equality under the law? Not if you don't want to take their medicine. You get to lose your job.
Get to participate in society? Not if you don't want to take their medicine. You get to stay home.
Freedom of movement? Not if you don't want to take their medicine.
Right not to be enslaved? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/nurses-union-submits... The government has enslaved our healthcare workers.
It's actually hard to find a human right that the canadian government hasn't violated or removed.
I'm sympathetic to concerns about free speech and in no way believe that Canada is perfect, in fact i dislike many of the choices we've made recently, but the way you've stitched this together reads as histrionics and catastrophizing.
Canadians, for better or worse, do not have the same fetish for noone-tells-me-what-to-do freedom as Americans.