Canadians would like to think that reasonable precautions are a good balance between public health and individual liberties.
HOWEVER there is no actual emergency in the balance. All the restrictions and mandates are superficially covered with public health authority but there is NO AUTHORITY under the constitutional order in the system of governance - NO AUTHORITY that empowers government - much less empowers individual public health officials - to impose these restrictions. ZILCH. Nada. RIEN.
There is no balancing going on here. These are NOT reasonable precautions.
The underlying problem UPON WHICH GOVERNMENTS HAVE DONE THESE DUMB THINGS is what? Protecting the well-being of citizens?
Well, considering the known and foreseeable harm to the well-being of all Canadians in terms of freedom denied and economic hardship and, yes, public health hazards, it is not reasonable to proceed without a clear and transparent basis for ANY public health measure, especially restrictions.
The basis for the supposed effort to stop the spread or to prevent collapse of the healthcare system, the basis for that, is PCR which does not test for sickness (ie COVID), does not test for viral load (ie presence of actual live virus), does not test for contagiousness/transmissivity (spread) and can not be matched with a specific symptom or set of symptoms unique to an illness (a supposed virus cause of a supposed illness). The PCR madness has not been tested and so is hokum. The evidence against the reliability, or even the applicability and usefulness, of PCR has been mounting for decades and the role of government in pushing PCR as a measure of 'the spread' can no longer hide behind so-called 'abundance of caution'.
These are NOT reasonable precautions based on medical science. POLITICS alone has dictated the fearmongering and the subsequent government impositions that supposed are responsive to the fear of citizens. Culpability has been shared and spread far wider than a supposed outbreak of a supposed virus and supposed illness.
Canadian citizenship is worthless if it is not a status that protects your freedom from harm by government. If that status is now used to deny your freedom and to harm your well-being, then, you have every reason - yes it is reasonable - to act against the government restrictions in whatever way you deem appropriate. Resist by law, resist by political action, resit physically if the threat is severe.
Does not mean violence. Means asserting the true worth of Canadian citizenship for yourself and for your fellow Canadians.
When someone, like a politician or a fearful neighbour, insists that YOU do not have a RIGHT to harm someone else's well-being and so YOU should wear a mask or YOU should take a vaccine or YOU should quarentine, well, you reply that if that is their governing principle in this matter, then, THEY do not have a right to harm your well-being. AND your well-being includes your liberties as well as your personal bodily security. This has been a non-controversial core of the CONSTITUTION and of various provincial human rights codes for decades now.
Stand your ground. It is firm ground and worth fighting for.