The government has allowed the province to move into the third stage of the reopening regulations of Ontario. There is a lot of confusion to begin with, and many people are not sure what is and what isn't allowed.
However there seems to be a division among the people as well as among politicians. People seem to believe that the province is on it's way to becoming "normal", believing every thing is going to return to what it was before 2019 when covid first appeared.
That is not the case though. That is not the reality of what is happening. While people are expressing their excitement for regaining of "freedoms" that were taken away, many of these same people are demanding authoritarian rule. The demand for vaccination passports are being demanded by universities, colleges, boards of education, some industries, restaurants, and the list continues to grow.
Premier Doug Ford is correct that one can not be forced to become vaccinated, nor can anyone force people to show some sort of proof, nor can they ask or demand proof. The governments have been finding that people who have been charged with violating lock downs and other covid violation, have seen these charges thrown out of courts when challenged on constitutional grounds.
As such, to ask for proof is an infringement on one's privacy. Therefore questions arise as to how far can organizations as those mentioned above, demand proof? Can they violate someone's privacy? According to many the answer is "yes". Legally and constitutional the answer is actually "no". But people seem to be pushing for a vaccination passport and are demanding that these passports be made available upon request. The next question is Who will have that authority to demand proof?
Authoritarian rule is what seems to be on the minds of some people. This demands include that people who are not vaccinated, need to be separated from society. Some of these people are demanding that constitutional freedoms need to be withdrawn and an acceptance of socialist/fascist type of controlling the population is desired. Basically these people are saying as long as it doesn't affect me, this is what I want to control other people.
As governments are being pushed into further controls and vaccination passports issued the people making these demands are not concerned about what kind of society they want to have. What is see is a division between them and others.
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