Discovery in a lawsuit brought against the Canadian Government has revealed that “Follow the Science” was a ruse.
When Trudeau’s administration announced, last year, a restrictive travel ban on all who refused to get “vaccinated” against COVID, the breathtaking nature of the political move (which was followed by a snap election) — and its sheer illiberality from a Liberal — may have overshadowed how little science was behind it.*
Of course, now that the vaccines have proven to be ineffective at stopping the disease, the medical rationale seems especially shaky. But, as Rupa Subramanya writes at Bari Weiss’s “Common Sense” Substack news page, “Court Documents Reveal Canada’s Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis.”
Among the juicy revelations uncovered?
“No one in the COVID Recovery unit” — which Ms. Subramanya identifies as “the secretive government panel that crafted the mandate” — possessed any medical credentials or had undergone any significant medical training.
The impetus for the travel ban came from above, in Trudeau’s cabinet.
And, juicier yet, “leading up to the implementation of the travel mandate, transportation officials were frantically looking for a rationale for it. They came up short.”
Oddly, the COVID Recovery unit has no website, and is rarely mentioned in official documents.
The plaintiffs in the case that has brought the information to light are Karl Harrison and Shaun Rickard. Lawsuits are expensive, and some of the funds to bring the case forward were raised on GoFundMe. In February, following Trudeau’s crackdown on the Trucker protest, GoFundMe kicked Rickard off the site.
In mid-June, Canada lifted the travel bans. But threatened to re-introduce them as, er, needed.
What we have learned is that the “necessity” was always a political one.
The science was just not there.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
* Emails released recently by the United States’ Food and Drug Administration show a similar lack-of-science basis for high-level political requirements for dramatic “medical” responses to COVID.
Art assist: craiyon
—
See all recent commentary
(simplified and organized)
1 reply on “Trudeauvian Tyranny”
The chief criterion of any governmental decision is how it will serve to increase government power. When a matter needs resolution by government (and a few do!), if the decision will not affect how much power the government has, then it often is decided rationally. U. S. and Canadian responses to COVID-19 always were on political bases. As for the responses by ordinary citizens, these have generally made sense. For instance, folks started using masks before the U. S. government even mentioned masks. Masks are not largely effective, but, in a minor way, they helped.