November 1st, 2024
I have been asked to comment on bill C-293, An Act respecting pandemic prevention and preparedness, which has been passed by the House and is being studied in the Senate. This is a private bill that was tabled by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.
I said in an interview that I oppose this bill, which should be obvious since I am the only federal politician who opposed everything the Trudeau government did related to covid during two years.
But some people are bizarrely claiming that perhaps I approve of it because I haven’t dropped everything else I was doing to campaign against it every day, given how destructive they think it will be for Canada.
There are dozens of bills, policies, and measures that the Trudeau-NDP government has adopted or is planning to adopt that are destroying our country, and although this one is clearly bad, I don’t believe it is among the worst.
That doesn’t mean we should be complacent, but there’s no reason to be hysterical either and claim Canada will suddenly turn into a UN-run dictatorship the day it becomes law.
If you read C-293, you will see that what it does essentially is tell the minister of Health to draw up a pandemic prevention and preparedness plan (article 3(1)) and table it within two years after the act comes into force (article 3(4)). It also lists a series of topics that should be included in the plan (article 3(2)).
It is these topics that makes people very worried, with good reason. But the bill doesn’t give more powers to the minister and doesn’t prescribe how to manage the next pandemic. It mandates him to prepare a plan. That’s all.
The government ALREADY has most of the powers it needs to impose tyrannical measures. We just experienced it in 2020-22! And even in cases where it clearly didn’t, it proceeded anyway and the courts have mostly failed to declared these measures unconstitutional (as with my challenge against the travel ban for the unvaccinated).
The bill is very concerning for two reasons. The first is that the government wants to be better prepared to impose tyrannical policies the next time a pandemic (or fake pandemic) comes, and wants a detailed roadmap to do it. Given all the horrific damage they did during covid, we should be worried if they are even better prepared the next time.
The second is that it confirms that the government is going ahead with various authoritarian or crazy policies that it has been pushing for years already.
For example, the bill mentions that the minister’s plan should provide for measures to “promote commercial activities that can help reduce pandemic risk, including the production of alternative proteins” (article 3(2)(l)).
This is frankly very bizarre. We know there is a push worldwide and in Canada to encourage us to eat less meat and more fake cultured meat and insects. It doesn’t really have anything to do with it, but the bill proposes to use the next pandemic as a pretext to do this even more. It’s no coincidence that Erskine-Smith himself is a pro-animal welfare and vegan activist.
The bill also says the minister should include in his plan “the communications capacity and infrastructure for electronic platforms and tools, including electronic applications that enable contact tracing of persons exposed to infectious diseases that could lead to pandemics” (article 3(2)(k)).
This is extremely worrisome. They want to be able to digitally track people who may have been exposed to diseases that “could lead to pandemics,” so even before a pandemic has started. This would be even more intrusive than a covid passport.
Unsurprisingly, the plan will need to have “a summary of key cooperative measures or agreements on disease outbreak prevention and preparedness between the Government of Canada, other foreign governments and key international organizations, including the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Organization for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations” (article 3(2)(o)).
This confirms that they want to continue to rely on UN organizations to decide how to deal with the pandemic, just like they did last time. Just like during covid, they want to use the next pandemic to impose their globalist agenda.
There are other issues that should raise flags in this bill. I plan to discuss all of this on a podcast soon to which I have been invited.
Again, this is concerning, and I hope the bill is either defeated or repealed by the next government. But it won’t be the sudden end of Canada. It’s a plan for more tyrannical pandemic measures when the occasion arises again. Whereas if we don’t stop mass immigration soon, Canada will really disintegrate within our lifetime.
