Can we put aside the Ford hate for a few minutes
No. Until he stops holding a pillow over Ontario's face, fuck that guy. No one rallies to his defence for anything until he stops violating our rights to freedom of mobility, freedom of association, and freedom of speech. Until then, the jackals can have the bastard.
Furthermore, if we calculate not total deaths but total years of life lost to COVID (Average Life Expectancy - Age of Casualty), I wager COVID ranks pretty low on the list of killers Canada could be devoting the entire nation's economy to fighting. If the government were to call off all the COVID hysteria tomorrow, open all schools and ban wearing masks entirely, and instead banned refined sugar and HFCS, they would save orders of magnitude more person-years of life than this year of lockdowns accomplished.
What do we call extracting the oil, rubber, tea, furs, diamonds, sugar, or silver from less-developed nations? Colonialism, right? Bad, right? Well, in a knowledge economy, what should we call extracting the top 1% of people capable of becoming doctors, nurses, engineers, and educators from less-developed nations?
I know you retards here don't like vaccines
Can you think of any potential problems which could arise from every government in the world simultaneously deploying an experimental vaccine after less than a year of trials? Particularly one which operates by altering the DNA of recipients?
A compelling view of modern Canadian history is that the Mulroney, Chretien, and Harper administrations, 30 years of political will, were all entirely spent pulling Canada out of the mire PET drove us into. Of the three, ironically it was the Liberal Chretien that did the best job. Harper had begun reasserted the importance and primacy of Canadian culture in Canada. Then 2015 comes along and we get a less intelligent successor to Trudeau intent on driving us straight back into the bog.
The first Trudeau administration. I'm honestly not sure how far-sighted he was or what his intentions were. The simplest narrative i can construct about it is that PET was charged with governing a country made up of two dissimilar nations that didn't really like each other, to the point where a parting of ways seemed like not the worst outcome. His solution to the two-nation dilemma was to denature both; render down Anglo-Canadian culture and Habitant culture into a homogeneous, textureless post-national Canadian consumer at which point separatism would be a moot point. As solutions go, it might even have worked, except he also had no particular love or concern for the Canadian people over and above all the rest of the world. A culture may be re-asserted following a genereration of suppression and degradation, but when a gene pool is debased, there's very little that can be done to restore the ancestral stock of the nation.
The Habitants were a nation in a much stronger sense than anglo-Canadians were, as we were never truly cut off from the UK. Look at them now. All that matters is that you speak French. There is no nationality in them. The bottom 10% of the HDI is a fine pool of immigrants to draw from, so long as they speak French!
This decision feels like another R. v Daviault situation. Every car manufactured without a breathalyser interlock built in by default is failing to prevent drunk driving in exactly the same way that failing to make every gun with an authorised user interlock does.
Someone injured by a drunk driver really ought to take a run at the manufacturer over not including a breathalyser. This decision can't be struck down soon enough.
While we're at it, when did domestic abuse become a reason to be a refugee
Anyone who flees China is a refugee because the act of fleeing China makes you an enemy of the state, notwithstanding that their treatment up to the moment they fled could have been 'normal' by Chinese standards.
I think the airlines are in the right here. Not necessarily when it comes to holding customers hostage for bailout money. They are an essential service that we, as citizens of a country too big to drive across, require. We need air travel to exist in Canada. The federal government has chosen to drive their business into the ground for the past year. They are entitled to recompense from the federal government for the damages the federal government inflicted. Instead of blaming the airlines for demanding the government make them whole, blame the government for causing the problem in the first place.
Then blame China for releasing the virus, for all the good that will do you.
The smaller the star, the longer it will burn. Most main sequence stars expand to red giants as they burn through their fuel, eventually collapsing into cold, dead dwarf stars. Some stars though; they go super nova. Burning up a million years worth of nuclear fuel in a moment and exploding with such ferocity that they can destroy planets orbiting neighbouring stars. One way or another though, every star dies eventually.
The_Donald grew into a red giant and collapsed. WallStreetBets went super nova.
That's exactly the compromise position I've arrived at. I had a trip to Burma planned that got cancelled by COVID, but other than that I've made no unnecessary concessions to the government's medical tyranny regime.