I use Canada as an example because it was a vast and wanton act by the government affecting and threatening thousands of accountholders at once.

It's a shame we don't have more libertarians representing the interests of the people in the Congress.

Can only hope whomever might be the next president would have the Coglioni to reform civil forfeiture.

Thus, doing this to them was justified and good. Meaning the government should have such powers.

If only there were some sort of clever computer algorithm that could create a money system that no one can track of block.

As an outsider looking in oon that debacle I have two point to make:

1: What I wanted to be addressed was why Canada went so much further than any other country in N. America in response to COVID, and what purpose did it serve when it's biggest trading partner (The US) was also starting to pressure it from it's border restrictions?

2: As a former street demo activist, I can tell you violence doesn't always have to resort to physical altercation; it takes many forms, and those impacts can take just as long if not longer to recover from. Financial censorship is a form of violence, you are depriving people of their own property and agency. It compounds further when their way of living is being stripped from them and they are unable to feed themselves or their families, thus causing further discord and strife in Society--be it in bankruptcy or divorce etc...

The vaccine-mandate is just one response to a litany of others that proved to have efficacy in combating COVID; better diets, exercise, sunlight and Vitamin D proved an even bigger boon for people's health and well being and yet those are OPTIONAL even to this day.

My point is why did it even come this? And why are so many proponents of the State being able to ruin the lives of fellow members of their class (non-elite/political class) with such fervor in Canada?

Some of it might be due to the current administration's "double allegiances" to China. [0] [1]. Notice Beijing too is set on it's "0 Covid Strategy". Canada was notorious for having delayed vaccination the Trudeau administration funneled 44 million dollars [2] and months [3] of taxpayer funded research work to CCP controlled CanSino, with little to show for.

> most French I've encountered see their dialect as uncouth

What? We have an office in Montreal with French-Canadians, French and Swiss employees and I've never heard of such thing.

[0] https://globalnews.ca/news/9658738/trudeau-foundation-china-...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65054559

[2] https://globalnews.ca/news/7302194/canada-coronavirus-vaccin...

[3] https://ipolitics.ca/2021/03/12/a-waste-of-a-lot-of-time-res...

That does make sense, Tornoto and especially BC has always been an enclave for the Main-lander to setup shop in Real Estate and then eventually educate their children or eventually expat to, and the place is rife with abuse, and at times violence, towards HKers while the local government or schools not doing much in response.

> What? We have an office in Montreal with French-Canadians, French and Swiss employees and I've never heard of such thing.

Its work enviorment, and the line of thinking you're taking follows as:

I don't see passive-racism in my office, where we pay people to work cordially for a salary with people they otherwise wouldn't be around, therefore racism doesn't and mustn't exist.

Racism is an over-used word in the modern lexicon, but ultimately this is a racial thing: you speak my language and are white, but clearly not from our specific ilk therefore we will ridicule you for it in order to show how inferior you appear to me/us.

I lived and worked in European/N. American kitchens, and restaurants frequented by all of the above; God help you if you only knew what they think about people from Angola or Mali. I was first there during the refugee crisis during the latter part of the financial crisis (11-14) when they couldn't house them so many just lived in city parks in any major town.

Swiss-French, specifically from Geneva, always got a pass for some reason: must be the Banker money/wealth thing attached to it. My friend was from Bern (difficult native mundart speaker even by Swiss German standards) but spoke French with that accent for work as a corporate worker at SBB at dinner parties. Whereas Vaulis always got a strange look if it were in earshot.

But You honestly cannot be oblivious of the way the mainland French perceive it's various dialects, hell even Alsace or Marsille dialects/accents get the cold shoulder from Parisian speakers at a table: but personally, Normandy sounds the best to my ears when spoken by a woman.

It was used to disperse people from protesting at the Capitol, because the government wanted to crush people protesting without talking to them and not any imminent threat. People who were only parked in the street with signs, gathered together to demand a change in policy.

They would give the plebs some scraps of coz. It's better to be homeless with some food than being hungry

This is what I found to be the case too, it was really alarming; it was like MAGA was sped up and shipped to Canada despite it being supposedly a US-thing, whereas the US was dealing with Police brutality via the BLM movement, Canada just seemed to welcome it's draconian police state because it carried all those other features if you were from that 'class.'

Terrifying and sobering to say the least.

Or did Sanders et al. suddenly become the majority of the Democrats while I wasn't paying attention ?

Sanders is not pro business. He is at least trying to help the ppl. He is not the usual democrats.

Sorry what's the point that u r trying to make? I never mentioned the US in the first place.

The law that allowed them to take these extraordinary measures includes a required independent public inquiry into their use. That has happened.

It found that the use was justified, measured, and rescinded immediately once it was no longer necessary.