Dear Editor:
It’s a shame that politicians are elected because they are popular and not because they are smart.
The Emergencies Act was recently invoked in Ontario. Why? It was invoked because the government wanted to use force to remove peaceful demonstrators in Ottawa. Let us not argue over whether the demonstrators were right or wrong. The demonstrators were there for three weeks and achieved national media exposure.
My disagreement is with the use of force to remove them. The government could have simply cordoned off the demonstrators and not let any fuel or supplies through. Without fuel for heat or food the demonstration could have been ended without force.
Should Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have met with the demonstrators? Again let us not argue the point, let us just admit that Trudeau, had an opportunity to end the demonstration without force and choose not to accept it.
According to Trudeau the unvaccinated are racists and white supremacists. He and other politicians have led the charge to ostracize the unvaccinated.
Politicians and other public figures have been blaming the unvaccinated for the COVID-19 epidemic. Are the politicians and other public figures correct? You be the judge.
If you summarize the number of COVID-19 cases reported daily on the Ontario government website, for the period Aug. 9, 2021 to Feb. 26, 2022:
– the number of unvaccinated people that caught COVID-19 totaled 110,754 cases;
– the number of double vaccinated people that caught COVID-19 totaled 380,305 cases.
Is there an early election on the horizon?
Ross Chaulk,
Wellington North
*Editor’s note: Considering about 86% of people in the province have received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, the vaccinated outnumber the unvaccinated by over 10 million. Data shows that as of Feb. 28, an unvaccinated person in Ontario is more likely to test positive for COVID, is six times more likely to be hospitalized with it and almost 12 times more likely to end up in an ICU than a person with at least two doses.