John Carpay: Vaccine Mandates Remain in Place in Ontario and BC in 2024, Marking 4th Anniversary of Lockdowns

Commentary

March 15 marks the fourth anniversary of Canada’s provincial governments closing schools and locking down our society and economy in response to COVID-19.

Launched in March 2020 under the clever banner of “two weeks to flatten the curve,” the government’s violations of charter rights and freedoms continued for the next four years, with lockdowns and vaccine passports, right up to the present.

Yes, the present.

Contrary to popular opinion, the fanatical war waged against COVID-19 by governments is not over yet. In British Columbia, thousands of doctors, nurses and other health-care workers are still prevented from returning to work because they did not get injected with the COVID vaccine in 2021.

Likewise in Ontario, hospitals today refuse to hire qualified, trained, and experienced nurses who declined the COVID vaccine. While preventing health-care workers from serving and treating patients, both the B.C. and Ontario governments complain publicly about a shortage of health-care workers.

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Why in March 2024 would government health authorities in Ontario and B.C. continue to impose mandatory vaccination policies on health-care workers? On a superficial level, vindictiveness and ideological fanaticism are likely explanations. On a deeper level, the likely answer is fear: the same overwhelming, oppressive, and over-powering fear that gripped Canadian society in 2020, fuelled by dire predictions from Imperial College London.

Dr. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London predicted in March 2020 that COVID would be like the Spanish Flu of 1918, killing tens of millions of people. Imperial College terrified politicians, media, the legal establishment, most of the medical establishment, and the public at large, by claiming that COVID would kill 40 million people in 2020, including 510,000 in Great Britain and 2.2 million in the United States…. (content shortened for brevity)

John Carpay, B.A., LL.B. is president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (jccf.ca).

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