If one didn't want Trudeau pulling this crap, no one else should do it, either:
It is very easy to let an all-powerful and unaccountable government do whatever it likes in times of uncertainty.
Such a government thanks its lucky stars that people are too poorly educated and preoccupied to notice.
As though following Machiavellian advice to never let a crisis go to waste, the Alberta government has quietly expanded its own powers under the Public Health Act. Bill 10, which was rushed through the legislature in less than 48 hours, gives cabinet ministers new powers to write de facto laws and create new penalties without the approval of the legislative assembly.
Before Bill 10 became law on April 2, Alberta’s Public Health Act already empowered politicians and bureaucrats to take property away from citizens and organizations, to force citizens to render aid, to conscript people to help deal with an emergency and to enter into any building or property without a warrant. The chief medical officer was already empowered to forcibly quarantine any person who is ill, or any person who is caring for a sick family member.
Before Bill 10, cabinet ministers were already empowered to suspend the operation of provincial laws, in whole or in part, once cabinet declared a public health emergency. But now, cabinet ministers have acquired the additional power of creating and implementing new orders and penalties, simply through ministerial order, without them being discussed, scrutinized, debated or approved by the legislative assembly of Alberta.
It is very easy to let an all-powerful and unaccountable government do whatever it likes in times of uncertainty.
Such a government thanks its lucky stars that people are too poorly educated and preoccupied to notice.
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