{"id":3993,"date":"2020-05-22T21:54:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2020-05-22T21:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:54:21","slug":"anti-lockdown-protests-have-spread-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Lockdown Protests Have Spread Across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Anti-Lockdown Protests Have Spread Across Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

in mid-April,  spontaneous anti-lockdown protests sprang up\nacross Canada. People attending expressed concerns about many issues, but the\nattack on free speech was one of them. As reported last month, Privy Council President Dominic LeBlanc<\/strong>,\na close ally of Justin Trudeau<\/strong>, had\ntalked about legislation criminalizing spreading misinformation over the Internet <\/strong>about the  coronavirus that could harm the public. As\ncontradictions in the government’s propaganda became obvious — at first, no\nrestrictions on travel from China (if you made such a proposal, you were a\n“racist”)\nand\nthe WHO <\/strong>said face masks do no good\n— many began to suspect they’d been deceived. Canadians have been terrified\ninto accepting lockdowns, restrictions of their mobility rights, restrictions on\ntheir right to earn a living or run a business and even virtual banning of\nreligious gatherings.
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New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island restrict travel by\nCanadians to their provinces. In Ontario, one Shanker Nesathurai<\/strong>, medical officer of health for Haldimand and\nNorfolk counties issued a public health order (later rescinded when threatened\nwith of legal action) banning cottagers, under threat of $5,000 fines from\ngoing to the cottages they own on Lake Erie. (National Post<\/strong>, May 16, 2020) The same issue of the Post <\/strong>showed a picture of\nmenacing signage at Port Stanley on Lake Erie: “Beach Closed. Restricted Area. No trespassing under penalty of\nlaw!”<\/em> So, people are banned from public beaches. Yet, sunlight helps\nkill viruses. Everywhere, swaggering authorities treat Canadian adults like\nmorons, assuming they will not keep a distance from each other. These and a\nhost of other abuses and illogical restrictions have motivated thousands of\nCanadians to protest. People are concerned about the arbitrary restrictions,\nthe crashing of the economy, the federal gun grab, and the possibility of\nforced vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There have been\nweekly protests in Vancouver and Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Hamilton,\nand more recently in Kelowna. This list is only partial. The first Toronto\nprotest, April 25, which drew 50 people provoked an angry Premier Ford to\ndenounce the protesters, whom he hadn’t met, as “a  bunch of yahoos” who were “reckless”.\nHis reaction is typical of many politicians who believe they should command rather\nthan listen respectfully to the views of those who elected them. Four weeks\nlater, the weekly Saturday protest had grown to 400 people. There were almost as many Red Ensign flags fluttering in the warm Spring sunshine as Pearson pennants. People shared many earned concerns — the loss of free speech, Trudau’s opportunistic gun grab, the fear of forced vaccination, and the general joyless herding of the population in a no service, neo-Soviet totalitarianism. Their signs help tell the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vancouver\n“No more lockdown” protests began two weeks earlier than Toronto.\nThey started with 25 and by May 17, had swelled to 325. B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix<\/strong> dismissed the protesters as people\nwith “marginal views. Don’t allow people who are attempting to\npromote themselves by using the suffering of others to distract us. Don’t look\nat them, but focus on what we need to do together.” (CTV<\/strong>,\nApril 26, 2020) A fellow NDPer Spencer\nChandra Herbert<\/strong> went further and seemed to want the police to charge or\nticket the protesters. Herbert, who is an outspoken lobbyist for homosexual\nrights, is himself homosexual and “married” to one Romi Chandra<\/strong>, stated: “”I\u2019ve\nalerted the Ministry of Public Safety<\/strong>\nfor their information, and reached out to the Vancouver police who have the\nresponsibility for enforcing orders. I don\u2019t want our community\u2019s safety\nthreatened by selfish people who won\u2019t do their part to stop COVID-19<\/strong>.”
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In Kelowna, led by\nlongtime freedom activist David Lindsay<\/strong>\nunder the banner of CLEAR (Common Law\nand Education Rights)<\/strong>, “end the lockdown” protesters from\nthroughout the Okanagan Valley rallied in Stuart Park, opposite City Hall, on\nMay 7. Their numbers had doubled to 40 on May 16 and they plan to be in Stuart\nPark every Saturday at noon until the lockdown ends, as will the Vancouver and\nToronto rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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