It’s hard to believe it is November and we are a full 7 months into the pandemic shutdown and turmoils.
During this time we have all had the experience of expressing our views on how the country, the province, the municiplities and we ourselves should be handling the situation.
There are 37 million Canadians of which 30 million have varied views( the rest are too young to really understand situation).
We constantly hear that shutting down the economy (at great cost) was the correct move and indeed I don’t argue that our total infections and the death toll are not what has occurred in some other countries.
But we must also be a cognizance that the message is that of the government which created the shutdown turmoils and the message is self serving to deflect open and frank valuation of their performance.
One must also realize the government is spending considerable sums of money and effort extorting its role as our saviour to defuse any warranted criticism of its actions.
But just like a marathon - doing well at mile 2 doesn’t mean you are going to have a successful finish. With Canadian infection rates now exceeding the levels reached in the spring and the economic resources of the country stretched to near breaking, the option to shut Canada down again is a very non appetizing option.
Don’t get me wrong but in a free and open society there comes a time when we need to discuss and decide upon the concept if “ saving lives at the expense of saving the country” must be the compelling priority of the government.
Perhaps focussing vast resources to achieve dubious results when prioritizing these resources would have been better used elsewhere- is the question we need answer to judge the governments effectiveness.
Canada was founded on common law rights. Freedom of expression, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of choice and freedom to bear the consequences of your choices are part of what makes us Canadians.
If these are sacrificed what type of Canada will we become?
Re the governments handling of covaid it is my personal opinion the government of Canada could have done a much better job in handling covaid but that is not the focus of this post.
November is when we honour and celebrate all of our citizens who have risen to the defence of our country. We especially focus on those who sacrificed all to protect and defend our rights and freedoms as citizens that we can pass these to the future generations.
Canadas foundation is “its people” and their “common law right to property”.
It is important to remember and understand that “right to property” includes more than real estate, it includes your personal property and your person itself.
We are rational and self sovereign individuals living within a system that is suppose to respect our personal freedoms and right of decision. The consequence of our decisions are the liability we incur for our actions which affect others.
The 2 simple mantras are “do no harm to others in your actions” and “he who owns the property has the authority to determine its use”
Knowing history is important. Understanding the why of history is far more critical!
Governments control the learning of history by controlling the education system and the press. It does not serve their needs to make us aware of our rights when said interfere with the authority of the government.
Most Canadians have a reasonably good knowledge of Canadian history. We know of our french english roots, our government being based on being a constitutional monarchy, french fur traders, Chinese labourers building the railways, indigenous peoples living in harmony respecting the land ( well that’s what the public are being told) of how we helped win the first and second world wars and our prime minister Pearson who helped found the United Nations—— however it is quickly apparent that most Canadians have no real understanding of the truths in and why’s of history, nor the subsequent application of the impacts and/or importance today.
We celebrate the sacrifice our prior generations incurred to protect these rights and freedoms. But we fail to really comprehend and understand “what the scope of those rights and freedoms were” and how they have been steadily eroded and diminished in the name of “the common good”
Covaid is a battle against a non human invader. This battle will be won by humankind whether we isolate, shut down the economy, don’t wear masks, take or not take drugs— man will survive this pandemic.
But if we sacrifice our liberties and subordinate ourself to the dictates of a state that defies our constitutional and common law rights, I fear the Canada that we knew will not survive.
Politicians are elected to protect our personal rights and freedoms from the state encroachments on these. Unfortunately, too many elected officials swallow the koolade and believe they are elected to protect and expand the power of the state and they submit themselves to the dictates of the Mandarin bureaucracy.
It appears to me that covaid has been transformed into the liberal election campaign platform funded by the Canadian people. Tax revenue is money each of us worked for and provided to the government. The Liberal government failed to have action plans for such an event ready to implement and further failed to have sufficient pandemic ppe’s in stock to address a virulent form of a pandemic.
Indeed after SARS the liberal led government deliberately drew down reserve stock levels of ppe’s and even worse, actually shipped much of our remaining ready stocks to China before Covaid struck Canada. At that time we had to beg borrow and pay massively to get enough ppe’s for our emergency responder needs when we got hit. Worse , due to shortages, we the citizens were first told that masks where not needed and than told to make our own cloth mask coverings because we didn’t have enough.
The liberal government failed in its duty to Canadians to have emergency plans on the shelf preprepared and ready for activation when the pandemic struck.
The government ( and not just the liberals) ignored the seniors situation for years. But the liberals were not just elected and so they bear the responsibility to have corrected past or potential issues and they failed this test. As a result to save face they perogued parliament and responded in a dictatorial manner.
Citing the common good and specific experts who only address one specific part of the entire more complex situation - their response was jerky and piecemeal fueled by a sudden realization that they were culpable. So we end up with the knee jerk reaction and actions instigated that snowballed to what happened.
Of course these actions were by the liberal party, not the government, because government was restricted and then perogued. The liberals utilized orders in council and has used Covaid to push its other agenda’s including the massive spending in reducing carbon emissions while at same time it is increasing Canada’s population through immigration to 40 million by 2030.
It is time that as citizens we need to debate and challenge the wisdom and real effect of pursuing increasing Canada’s population by a further 10% while striving to reduce overall carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030.
We need full and frank dialogue about the wisdom and real impact nationally and globally from destroying and shutting down one of the nations most important economic engines, that being our petroleum industry.
Our farming, timber and mining sectors are also under attack and doing business in Canada is becoming more difficult and productivity is questionable.
Indeed the unquenchable need for more and more of the nations wealth to feed the government has brought the our nation to an economic cliff. Should the government choose to push its luck and increase the taxation and tariffs it extols on its citizens, the economy will not recover and the standard of living for all Canadians will fall.
Our country requires fuel to operate its transportation systems, to heat our homes, to run our industry and manufacturing, to make fertilizer to grow our crops, and to generate income we can use to buy goods and services from abroad.
So the concept that we can shut it down and replace with lithium based batteries and power from wind and solar and tides is a pipe dream. Indeed it is criminal as the fate of Canada is at risk.
But more so, if we are prepared to sacrifice all, what will be the net effect to the worlds carbon emissions. They will continue to increase pollution and destroy the oceans through overfishing.
So we must ask; why in the midst of this pandemic is Green energy the continuing major focus of the government?
One can only conclude they know something so scary they dare not tell us or they have other reasons then the publicity arguments they advance.
This liberal government makes it clear it is a firm supporter of un agenda 2030. But what is agenda 2030 ?
I encourage everyone to google search this and take a week to read it.
Agenda 2030 is the former agenda 21 updated. The un goal is to remove right to own real property (realestate) and to transfer all private owned property into the property of the state.
Agenda 2030 states property owners right of ownership need to be controlled by government and not only is the federal liberal government a supporter of this but so too our provincial government along with our municipal governments which includes Hamilton and Halton as supporter signatories to this.
Private property rights are under intense attack. The levels of government interference to property rights of owners is intense and escalating .
We the members of the HHLA and the OLA do not believe in this concept of world order and removal of our property rights. We believe it is critical that we defend and protect the constitution and respect 800 years of common law, which is our countries foundation.
Should we fail in our efforts then the costs endured and the sacrifices made by our citizens to defend our rights as citizens will be in vain. Their memory will be honoured but what they stood for will be politicized, bastardized and mocked in a new world order where our grandchildren will be faceless.
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Don Johnson is not a lawyer and is not giving legal advice. The above are the personal observations, opinions and expressions of the writer and are expressed as such under his right of free so each. It is intended to stimulate thought and discussion by its readers.
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