If you imagine a bill that says the government can do anything it wants, as long as it mutters something like “pandemic preparedness” or “anything that could lead to a pandemic risk” you would not be far wrong. There is no lower bar.
Democracy in present forms ain’t much but some of us kinda though about improving it, not removing it.
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MY OPEN LETTER TO THE SENATE, PARLIAMENT PIERRE POILIEVRE AND EVERY PREMIERE OF THE PROVINCES. NO. NO. I SAY NO. TO BILL C-293
You stand in the most important intersection of history imaginable. Because you are those who stand in the fray for us all. You do. Therefore I write you and ask that you use every power to stop the passage of this Bill C-293.
The first issue with the bill is that it is overly broad.
There is nothing that a “One Health Approach” doesn’t cover.
It makes “central” to the pandemic all conceivable matters in human existence, whether through plants, animals, and ecosystems. It makes every relationship with government subject to governance under this bill through the Welfare interface. Thus it awards in one Act an unfathomable amount of power.
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