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O Canada
I’ve always had a fondness for Canada. Not the actual thing, but the idea of Canada I have in my head. Unspoiled forests, resolute Mounties, briny fishermen in hardscrabble towns where traditions go bedrock-deep, magnificent architecture. It’s like a parallel version of the US: select the top tier of the US states, do a copy-drag, reproduce it, and run a simulation to see how the cloned version would do if you moved the French sliders to the maximum settings, and tweaked the national character settings vis-a-vis their powerful neighbor so they were always trying to balance pride and envy, contempt and admiration, resentment and gratitude.
In the Canada of my old imagination, it has cosmopolitan cities with dreadful 70s cement architecture built by men with egregious sideburns, and I still like it. They built a whole nation up there, another iteration of Western Civ. Australia without the lethal fauna and convict history. It’s fun to think about a nation that fused the US and Canada, how it might have shaped our own culture.
Left-wing modern view: We should be more like Canada because it’s awesome and mellow and welcoming and healthcare is free!
Well:
Ontario’s government walked back some of its new policing powers one day after they were announced, now only allowing police to stop vehicles or people if they are suspected of participating in an organized public event or social gathering.
That’s the walked-back version.
Doug Ford’s government initially said on Friday that police could stop people at random and ask why they are not at home and where they live as part of a strengthened stay-at-home order to help stem a rising number of COVID-19 cases.
There is something absolutely rotten in a leadership class that believes this is acceptable. The good news is that the constabulary would have none of it:
The change came after several police services across Ontario took to social media on Friday saying they won’t comply with the new powers to stop people and question their reason for leaving home.
That qualifies as good news these days. You are free to move about, citizen.
Unless we think you are participating in a social gathering.
Published in General
This is the greatest YouTube video ever, from one of the greatest Canadians that has ever lived. lol I cannot possibly exaggerate how much I like this. Ladies and gentlemen, the great Ezra Levant. lol
Yay! Go get ’em, Ezra!!
Rules for transiting Canada to Alaska: http://dot.alaska.gov/covid19info/canadian-border.shtml
(Numbering is off because this is just a part of it).
Thank you. Now can you please enter the concentration camp? Its for your own good.
Dave Rubin:
His commentary on Ontario’s policies begin at 20 minute mark.
Its interesting to note, that not a single one of those fines, has ever gone to court, and every time they do, they either dismiss or get a continuance. One noted protestor has had his case postponed 4 times at last count.