I can't speak for everyone of course but for me the issue isn't even the forest ban per se. It's the total indifference to its rights infringement. The whole conversation seems to amount to forest fires are bad and stopping them is good and ergo any state intervention along

This.

Literally, yes. That’s what’s next. Or something else like it.

The idea that “all people must do X, because if not then some people might Y”, is tyrannical thinking. And you may be ok with it this time, or many times. But it’s still tyranny. It’s tyranny of the majority.

In Canada, governments spend too much time on fire suppression, and too little on prevention measures, the most important one being prescribed burns: the deliberate setting of fires under controlled circumstances to reduce the number and intensity of forest fires. Denying

Disagreement is good when it leads to wisdom and compromise. When it leads to statesmanship. But it doesn’t anymore. Disagreement these days only leads to derision, ridicule, entrenchment and frustration. We’ll never get anywhere this way.

Trust the science. We’re all in this together. Two weeks to flatten the curve.

Yes, and we’re going to help him do it.

People literally seem to want the government to lock them down again, as if that will prevent a forest fire.

A reminder that our constitutional order recognizes the *individual* as the fundamental unit of society. We do not have “collective rights”. We have *individual rights and freedoms*. These can’t just be dismissed or ignored just because it’s not convenient to do so.

Every time a citizenry accepts a total ban on something - anything - without any hesitation, they become a little less free.

You do not have a right to “feel safe”. That is an impossible concept for the government to achieve.

The current ban on selling US wine and spirits is moronic.

A reminder that s.1 of the Charter requires the government to demonstrate - that is, with evidence - that a law limiting citizens’ Charter rights is justified. The government CANNOT just make shit up, as appears to be the case out East right now.

It’s not about forest fires. It’s about the Charter of Rights and the Constitution. If we say we respect people’s rights and freedoms, then this is where the runner meets the road.

Imagine how much maple syrup you’d need…

If you support forest bans and supported COVID lockdowns, then you also must support the forcible internment of Japanese civilians during WWII. There is no principled difference between any of them.

Except they really have no idea since the investigation isn’t done.

lol, a “traitor”. oooOOOOooo “He’s committed TREASON!!!” For speaking his mind. 🙄

Islam is not the problem. Radical Islam is a problem.