>I first thought you were from Russia or China. On the grand scheme of things, Canada is a very free country. You will not find much more freedom elsewhere, and if so, then it's going to cost you freedom in another way.

Canada was fantastic to live in if you had asked me in 2019; easily one of the best countries in the world. I never considered for a second leaving Canada. I consider the USA and depending on state some were more restrictive than others. Canada on the otherhand was next level totalitarian compared to everyone.

I got fully vax very early on and as I said, 'laptop class' so I am not personally affected to great degree. Canada changed big time, you can't even argue this has been done for the greater good. Which is what has been argued all all along, these changes weren't for covid. These far exceed anything reasonable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_issues_related_to...

It's offensive to me that Canada was excluded from this wiki page.

Azerbaijan arrested at least 6 activists... Canada arrested hundreds. Declared national emergency and is still holding some of these people in prison for being apart of a legitimate protest. Months later without charge... They are still adding charges to some. Bank accounts seized. It's coming out right now that the military is actively tracking all Canadians.

Here's some pastor: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-pastor-artur-...

He was charged and arrested because of organizing an outdoor protest? There was literally judge ordered compelled speech where you cannot criticize covid response in any way. Another judge stayed the order.

Justice Jo'Anne Strekaf of the Alberta Court of Appeals temporarily blocked sanctions issued by Court of Queen's Bench Justice Adam Germain against Polish-Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski, according to a written ruling published Wednesday.

>In China, many patients had to be turned away from hospitals after hours of queuing due to the high number of ill people

So the queues were long?

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-s-10-p-m-curfew-will-be-l...

Quebec had a 10pm curfew up to january 2022...

At 10:30pm you were no longer legally allowed to leave wherever you were, no excpetions. The virus is more dangerous at 10:30pm then at 9:30pm. https://twitter.com/gharperkelley/status/1477067682533027842

Note no exceptions, you break your arm... you aren't going to the hospital. You arrive at the hospital and you're going to be arrested. Many people were arrested. Hell each time they tried to protest against it, they were all arrested and fined.

Those Quebec Nurses are literally enslaved by the government, they are going to comply and call the police on you: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/nurses-union-submits...

Let's not forget that if you are unvaccinated... you cannot legally go to the hospital. My coworker's mom was in the hospital on her deathbed for a couple months and he could not legally go see her and say good bye.

I am fully vaccinated and I couldnt go see my grandma before she passed in the hospital. She was in there over a month. There was a possibility but I had to get pre-approval from the hospital administration to go see her. Which I never got approved in time before she passed away.

>Suppression of information

Medicine requires informed consent but the government suppressed any opposing information. They absolutely said the vaccine prevents infection. That vaccination will get us out of the pandemic... etc etc lies.

>Several countries have unlawfully and arbitrarily held migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in detention, constituting a violation of international law and human rights. Amnesty International criticized the governments of the United States, Mexico, Canada, Curaçao, and Trinidad and Tobago for continuing to "collectively detain tens of thousands of adults, families, and children in immigration detention facilities" amid COVID-19.[

Canada is in the list, but it wasn't just migrants. It was literally everyone. You were arbitrarily detained for 2 weeks for 'quarantine'. You didn't get free food or accommodations neither. You were forced to be there and you were forced to pay for everything in these detention centers. Some people got bills over $1000. If you refused to pay, they didn't even charge you... they literally took it out of your bank account without your consent. No judge order nothing like that.

>Freedom of movement

This is still a problem today. If you're unvaccinated... you can't leave the country. You can't reasonably move around the country even. I violated the 'only essential travel' laws multiple times during covid. I knew how to avoid the few checkpoints.

>Lockdown restrictions in certain countries imposed a limit of practitioners attending a religious ceremony.

That's what got my coworker to be an antivaxxer. They were arresting priests and pastors like mad. Arthur above is but 1 example.

Anyway this is long and could be much longer. Canada has a great reputation for being a free place. That changed in the last 2 years. Covid was only an excuse. Sure there's some places that are worse in the world but I don't want to wait and see how much worse it gets.