Half a The House has passed bill C-293, An Act respecting pandemic prevention and preparedness, and the Senate is currently considering it. I have been invited to provide my thoughts on this legislation. Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, a Liberal MP, introduced this private bill.
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Since I am the only federal politician that opposes every action taken by the Trudeau administration over COVID for the past two years, it should be clear that I oppose this law, as I stated in an interview.
However, given how detrimental they believe it will be for Canada, some people are oddly saying that maybe I support it since I haven't given up everything else I was doing to oppose it every day.
Numerous laws, regulations, and initiatives that the The Trudeau-NDP government has implemented policies that are ruining our nation, and while this one is obviously horrible, I don't think it's one of the worst.
While we shouldn't be complacent, we also shouldn't be frantic and think that the day it becomes law, Canada will suddenly become a UN-run tyranny.
As you can see from reading C-293, it basically instructs the Health Minister to create a strategy for pandemic prevention and preparedness (article 3(1)) and present it within two years of the act's enactment (article 3(4)). Additionally, it enumerates a number of subjects that ought to be covered in the plan (article 3(2)).
quite concerned, and rightfully so. However, the bill doesn't specify how to handle the next pandemic or grant the minister further authority. It requires him to design a strategy. That's all.
The majority of the authority required for the government to enact oppressive policies is already in place. It only happened to us in 2020–22! The courts have largely failed to deem these restrictions unlawful, even in circumstances when it was evident that they did not (as with my challenge against the travel ban for the unvaccinated).
Two factors make the bill extremely worrisome. First, the government wants a comprehensive plan to implement totalitarian measures in the event of a pandemic (or fictitious one) in the future.
These subjects are what make people it. We should be concerned about if they are even more prepared the next time, considering the terrible damage they caused during COVID.
The second is that it affirms the government's continued implementation of the dictatorial or insane policies it has been promoting for years.
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