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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by mardifoufs on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:55AM (#29826042)
Those rankings have absolutely 0 values. We are currently under our 2nd curfew in less than a year, I can't go outside after 10pm under the threat of a 2000$ fine (which the police is very heavily enforcing) and yet we are way up there in the list you linked. Complete joke
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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by deanCommie on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:18PM (#29828489)
Well, when we're in the middle of a Global Pandemic, with the 5th-highest death toll in human history [0], a couple things have to change temporarily, don't you think?

Also, this is a Quebec-only curfew. Take it up with your provincial government. If separated as a country, perhaps Quebec wouldn't make the list. Quebec has plenty of other counter-freedom policies including your government-endorsed islamophobia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics#By_death_tol...

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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by mardifoufs on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:55PM (#29830014)
You are contradicting yourself. It's a global pandemic yet only quebec is going for these absolutely ridiculous measures. Hence why it's ludicrous for canada to be higher than the US. And it's been 2 years, it's not exactly temporary, especially since there's literally no scientific backing for a curfew in a pandemic and our government is not even pretending that there is any. At a certain point the "it's a global pandemic" excuse just does not work and you get well into the threshold of a non free society and I think we are well past that in quebec.

Also, quebec is still part of canada. So again, your point is just strange. You are just deflecting very weakly what I said.

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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by deanCommie on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:00PM (#29832562)
Every province can take invidiual actions for their citizens that the federal government disagrees with. Quebec can do more than the rest.

That's not an argument for restrictive Canadian freedom, that's an argument for INCREASED freedom in Canada for individual provinces (especially Quebec)

"You don't like it -> move" is an argument that doesn't work very well across international borders, but ABSOLUTELY works within a country. If you find Quebec to repressive, move to a different province.

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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by mardifoufs on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:40PM (#29832990)
Agreed, and as a Muslim it's for more than one reason as you pointed out earlier. I'm actively looking into moving, probably across the southern border though. But still, I think it's very reasonable to expect the experiences of the second biggest province in a country to be reflected in international rankings.
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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by bennysomething on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:18PM (#29826417)
Are you in the USA? I didn't know you had curfews!?
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Re:What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) by mardifoufs on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:40PM (#29827865)
In canada currently. 6th month of curfews this year... but at least this time it's until 10 pm and not 8pm like the first curfew. So I guess that's something lol
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