.maxfawcett: Pierre Poilievre vs. Pierre Trudeau via NatObserver
Time and again, he has said he wants to “make Canada the world’s freest country.” But what does that actually mean?
What Poilievre seems to mean is that Canada isn’t free enough for the anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers and the rest of the petulant pandemic protesters who gathered in Ottawa in January. But their freedoms don’t automatically supersede those of the millions of Canadians who have tried to look out for their fellow citizens, and their refusal to follow the rules doesn’t make Canada a less free country. It’s the existence of rules, in many respects, that undergirds our most important freedoms of all.
The parts of the world that have embraced Poilievre’s version of freedom haven’t exactly thrived in recent years, either. Whether it’s Florida or North Dakota, the libertarian ideology Poilievre ascribes to has been a death sentence for many thousands of people in places where the rights of vaccine skeptics and anti-maskers have been prioritized above the health of the broader public.
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