The return of mandatory masking? It's a COVID hangover...
Plus heartbreak on the highway, hidden immigration data and a threat to private property.
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Mandatory masking is and should remain a thing of the past, but the Canadian Standards Association want to bring it back. They are engaging in public consultations on a recommendation that N95 masks be worn at all times in all healthcare settings.
It’s a crazy idea that never should see the light of day.
Some people though will never give up on the mandates and restrictions that we saw rise up during the COVID-19 pandemic. As I write in my Sun column, issues like masking act as a security blanket and a political statement more than a medical device at this time.
Give the column a read and please share it, because this issue has received little coverage up until this point other than from activist websites in support of mandatory masking.
Thankfully, I was able to get the Ford government in Ontario and the Smith government in Alberta to reject the idea. I’m also hearing from plenty of doctors who think the idea is crazy.
If you are a doctor opposed to this, feel free to send me a private message via brian@brianlilley.com and share your thoughts or links to research on this issue.
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Heartbreak on the highway…
A father of three, Andrew Cristillo, is dead after a horrific crash last week. His wife, Christina, is battling cancer and their three young girls, Leah, Chloe, and Ella, are recovering from serious injuries at Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital.
Joe Warmington has the full heartbreaking story for you.
One key element though is that the 18 year-old Oshawa man charged in this incident is the same young man charged with hitting Premier Doug Ford’s OPP vehicle in early January.
As per Warmington, Jaiwin Victor Kirubananthan is facing charges of dangerous driving causing death, three counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, failing to remain at the scene of an accident resulting in death, and public mischief.
There are plenty of questions being asked online about the man’s citizenship/immigration status and the truth is, we don’t know anything at this point. Police have not released any details to my knowledge on where Kirubananthan is from other than Oshawa.
If he is not a citizen, I’m fine with deportation, he’s broken the law and caused death, injury and stress to too many people.
One thing is clear though, Kirubananthan should never be behind the wheel again. I don’t know if he is driving high or drunk but he clearly can’t handle a motor vehicle.
The collision with the Premier’s vehicle back in January was described to me a t-bone, or close to it. How do you do that on a 400 series highway?
This latest accident is even more horrific.
A Go Fund me was set up to raise $100,000 to help the family, as I write it is at $346,000. This family is going to need a lot of support in the future and not just money.
If you want to help, you can donate at this link.
Speaking of hidden immigration data…
Last week Conservative MP Michelle Rempel-Garner spilled the beans on the Carney Liberals hiding data on immigration and my colleague Bryan Passifiume picked up on the story.
Yesterday, with the raw immigration data that is normally released every month still being hidden, I picked up on the issue. This data is used by public policy makers, business groups, home builders, school districts and more, but for now it is hidden.
I agree with MRG (that would be the awesome nickname for Michelle Rempel-Garner), we have to be concerned that the Carney Liberals will be changing how the information is presented to massage the data in favour of the government. They’ve already told us that they will be changing how the data will be presented in the future, they just haven’t told us how.
Also, as I point out in my video, Stats Canada is giving us conflicting information on this front.
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Will you even own your own home in the future…
This isn’t about the WEF Great Reset slogan about how you will own nothing and be happy, this is about a crazy Canadian court ruling. In a judgment that still hasn’t received much attention outside of British Columbia, a court ruled that federal and provincial land title in an area covering more than seven square kilometres is invalid.
This land was once used as the summer village for members of the Cowichan bands and they’d like it back.
The problem is the Crown has been granting land title in the area since it was settled by Europeans and that makes all of it messy. It also raises questions about what will happen to land and title in the rest of Canada.
It’s true, BC is a different fish on the issue of land claims, but bad ideas have a way of spreading through Canada’s judicial system.
The British Columbia government is now appealing this ruling citing “significant unintended consequences” when it private property rights in the province.
I’d argue the whole country.
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Canadians seem to be teetering on the brink of descending into total insanity. It feels like pushing jello trying to counter the madness that the awake run into every single day. The worst offender of all is the judicial system closely followed by the federal government.
With regard to mandatory masking for anyone visiting their doctor or in a hospital setting, this is beyond crazy, particularly given that they are proposing people wear a N95. The Canadian Standards Association should know better than most what an onerous task this would be given that people must be professionally fit tested for a N95 mask or it will not do its task. As well the N95 can only be worn once and then discarded. The reason I know this is that I worked in Emergency Management with the RCMP when it was doing pandemic planning. This was before COVID, when the WHO was ringing alarm bells about a potential bird flu pandemic that never happened. The RCMP was considering N95s for members to wear when on duty should a pandemic occur. However, even they recognized how difficult it would be fit test all members and then issues the masks.... confronting such questions as how many per day, per shift, the cost etc....and the idea was abandoned. So the CSA proposal.... again beyond crazy.