Dear Editor:
RE: Freedom for all or free-for-all? (Feb. 3).
To use David Adsett’s own words, I find his irony and hypocrisy galling. He has done the same thing as many other main stream media outlets have done and that is to portray the protestors as “malcontents”, “trainwreck” and spinning the same narrative that this is a fringe group.
This is the same type of rhetoric and insults that our prime minister also uses and what is dividing this country. Mr. Adsett was correct on one count, and that is the people have had enough.
He goes on to use his platform to once again point out the actions of a select few disrespectful protestors and paint all protestors with the same brush as being the same.
This issue is not about being vaccinated or not. This is about far-reaching powers that the government has imposed that flies in the face of our Charter of Rights and “Freedoms.” It is one thing to inconvenience citizens by restricting some movements if not vaccinated, but it goes too far when you threaten peoples’s livelihood and insist that they accept medical treatment (getting vaccinated), which is everyone’s right to refuse.
Mr. Adsett attempted to marginalize the vocal group of a much larger underlying populace that have had enough but have been afraid to speak out for fear of this marginalizing vitriol.
Isn’t it ironic that it was our same prime minister who praised truck drivers two years ago and deemed them essential workers and exempted them from forced vaccinations because they were vital to our supply chain, and yet he now mandates vaccinations for them. That is hypocrisy.
All levels of governments have failed our population through a wholly inadequate health and long-term care system and used these draconian and misdirected mandates to cover their mismanagement and lack of capacity of these systems and the ability to protect the most vulnerable. Businesses have been destroyed, mental health issues have exploded, and other medical procedures have gone unchecked, jeopardizing many lives.
It’s time for these restrictions to be lifted and for clear thinking and rational Canadians to make personal choices for themselves and to gain back our freedoms.
I have been fully vaccinated (my choice without threat of losing my job) but support this protest movement.
Steve Charbonneau,
Erin