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If the public's response to Covid has shown us anything,
it is that many people - terrified by a continual stream
of war-time language (e.g., "front lines") and prison
language (e.g., "lock-down") from elected politicians,
"officers of health", and tax-funded media - allow fear
and panic to erode their respect for the freedom of their
fellow human beings. The terrified look for someone
to blame. Fingers get pointed. The population gets
divided into a defamed "out-group" that is scapegoated
for all the harm and loss being suffered, and an "in-group"
of frightened, angry people calling the out-group the
equivalent of disease or vermin, demanding that the
government impose increasingly punitive and tyrannical
penalties upon those who simply refuse to agree to the
loss of their freedom. For politicians seeking re-election,
physical evidence and the scientific method cease to
matter: the results of political polls end up driving public
policy. Freedom is lost and, with it, peace, prosperity,
happiness, and goodwill-toward one's fellow human
beings.
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History is full of examples of the exact same pattern. In
many cases, the end result has been genocide (e.g., Hitler's
Germany, Stalin's USSR, Rwanda, etc.). Our politicians,
in Ontario, either have not read a history book
or have refused to learn the lessons of history. Or worse:
they have learned the lessons of history and deliberately
have used terror to expand the powers of government.
The laws of Ontario need to be changed to ensure that
the kinds of infringements upon freedom that have
happened - this time due to SARS-CoV-2 - are much
less likely to happen ever again. To that end, a Freedom
government will:
- Immediately end any and all mask mandates still
in effect, including in schools. All provincial and
municipal government buildings will be free of mask
mandates. Employers, landlords, and providers of
goods and services will be prohibited from making
the wearing of a mask a condition of entry or of
service;
- Immediately end any and all Covid vaccination
mandates still in effect, including in hospitals;
- Ban segregation/discrimination on the basis of
Covid vaccination status. Employers, landlords
businesses open to the public, government offices,
and other public venues will be prohibited from
requesting proof of vaccination;
- Immediately discontinue the operation of Ontario's
"Verify Ontario" vaccine passport app. The
app will be withdrawn from all distribution services
such as the Apple and Google app stores;
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- Ontario's current plan to replace the digital vaccine
passport with a "Digital ID" will be cancelled.
- Immediately end Ontario's Covid-vaccination
campaign. Those who wish to continue to have
Covid vaccine injections will be free to do so at their
own expense, in the same manner that they would
pay for other medicines;
- Immediately end any and all remaining lockdowns
and Covid-related limits on the number of
customers that may be present in a store;
- Immediately end all Covid-related measures that
keep family members and friends from visiting,
talking-to, or touching one another;
- Immediately end all measures against, singing, dancing,
dining, sports, sitting side-by-side in entertainment
venues et cetera;
- The absence of mask mandates, Covid vaccination
mandates, plexiglass dividers, aisle direct arrows (for
example, in grocery stores), etc. shall be deemed not
to constitute unsafe work conditions for the purposes
of workplace safety laws and the common law;
- Review, and amend as necessary, Ontario's Emergency
Management and Civil Protection Act ("EMCPA") to
better define what constitutes an emergency, and to
ensure that that statute cannot be used to sacrifice
individual freedom to an alleged "greater good" of
the collective;
- Amend the EMCPA to prevent the government
from distinguishing between "essential" and
"non-essential" providers of goods and services; and
to prevent the government from using lock-downs as
a method of attempting to deal with communicable
diseases;
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- Amend the EMCPA to prevent the government
from issuing "stay at home" orders (i.e., house
arrest) and from restricting the movement of individuals
who are not demonstrably suffering symptoms
of a contagious disease;
- Amend the EMCPA to prevent the government from
making any law or order that violates or undermines
an individual's right to decide whether or not to
undergo a medical procedure or to take a given inoculation
or medicine;
- Amend the EMCPA to include that provincial parliament
is dissolved five months after the declaration of
an emergency. In other words, a provincial election
must be held six (6) months after the provincial
government declares an emergency. Politicians
considering placing the province into a state of
emergency for anything other than the most justified
reasons must face, also, the possibility that they will
be voted out of office for having declared or supported
the state of emergency;
- Amend the EMCPA to prevent the government
from imposing mask mandates;
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- Prohibit the administration of vaccines (for example,
in schools) to children without parental consent.
Minors lack the capacity to give informed
consent!;
- Amend the EMPCA to prevent the government from banning
religious assembly or service;
- Require Ontario's tax-funded venues, including
schools, colleges, universities, sports facilities, entertainment
facilities, libraries, museums, and government
buildings to fully restore, to pre-Covid
status, in-person service; and
- Ensure that elected MPPs are not deprived of
their power to question and criticize the government
during a state of emergency. The need to hold
the government to account is more important, not
less important, during a state of emergency.
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