Two minutes with the Justice CentreDivided Canadians should agree on one thing: It’s the response to Covid that’s divided them and vaccine mandates are only the latest issue causing division between strangers, within families, and even in marriages. It’s a marker for the crucial distinction in human affairs: Does the state own the citizen, or do the citizen own the state? Citizens of authoritarian countries know regardless of what their constitution says, their government can actually do whatever it likes with them. With the prime minister calling unvaccinated Canadians racist, extremist, anti-science and misogynist(6), it was unsurprising that Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos then encouraged(7) provinces to impose mandatory vaccinations. Without that a person is no citizen at all, just a serf of whoever does have control.

Source: National Post January 15, 2022 06:50 UTC