Canada's Predictable Tet Offensive

The new year, the Year of the Tiger, is about to begin. And a new Tet Offensive has been launched, or at least announced.  Canada's minister of health, Jean-Yves Duclos, today declared that his “personal understanding of what we see internationally and domestically” with Omicron and his conversations with provincial counterparts have convinced him that universal vaccine mandates will soon be on the table. Expect to see the first of these floated by February, perhaps even here in Quebec, where an antiquated Health Act lies open to abuse.

Plenty of work has already been done softening us up for that possibility. Coercive mandates in various sectors, based on the false narrative that the unjabbed were driving Delta and are now driving Omicron, have been combined with other punitive measures undertaken against those wicked folk (derided by the prime minister with the worst slurs he can think of); lately even the jabbed have been punished. The former were told that, if only they would join the ranks of the latter, everything would be just fine. The latter were told that they, at least, are fine. Except they aren't. So now they are being told that, if the unvaccinated are compelled to join them, then at last all will be well!

I don't know how many times, and in how many ways, people can be lied to and still pretend that everything is fine, but those who are beginning to wonder about that might consider a couple of things that would change if those "unvaccinated by choice" became vaccinated against their choice. First, no one at all would be fine, for all would be in the same leaky vaccine boat, dependent on perpetual booster shots and other such rapacious measures. Second, no one would any more have choice, for the very principle of choice would be gone.

To each of these very bad consequences there is an equally bad corollary. With the first goes loss of a medical care system governed by confidential patient-doctor relationships directed to the good of the individual. With the second goes loss of a political system based on the rule of law and the consent of the governed.  And, at the intersection here, the first casualty among protected Charter rights is personal bodily autonomy, without which none of the other Charter provisions make any sense or can have any force.

I note that four Alberta doctors who are challenging the AHS mandate that deprives them of their right to practice medicine, or to practice it freely, had their request for an interim injunction denied by the judge hearing the case. That was announced on 17 December, but (as the Justice Centre reports) Henderson J proceeded to say: “One thing is perfectly clear; the Plaintiffs have a right to refuse to take the vaccine. No one can force them to take the vaccine. That is a right that must be respected.”

Apparently M. Duclos, an economist who was appointed minister of health on 16 December, still hasn't got the memo on that. Or, more likely, he and his confrères don't care. They rule by fiat, not by fidelity to the Constitution. They are not responsible to the facts, but only to the fictions they have been told to maintain. They don't serve the people, but foreign masters who intend that the people should serve them.  

The Tet Offensive of January 1968 didn't end well for the Communist regime of North Vietnam. It can nevertheless be said that it succeeded in breaking the will of the American people to continue the fight. The Tam & Duclos Offensive can't end well either—not medically, not legally, not economically. But will it break the spirit of the Canadian people, leaving us prey to the neo-communism of the so-called stakeholder capitalists who (like their Chinese counterparts) have mobilized against the free world?  That's up to us to decide.