Premier Danielle Smith says she plans to reinforce the right to decide whether to receive a vaccination or other medical procedure in changes to the Alberta Bill of Rights.
In an online video posted Tuesday, Smith said her government aims to amend the document in a few weeks to ensure people have the right to make informed decisions without fear of undue pressure or interference by the government.
“It is my firm conviction that no Albertan should ever be subjected (to) or pressured into accepting a medical treatment without their full consent,” she said.
The changes outlined by Smith would also ensure the province respects “the right of individuals to legally acquire, keep and safely use firearms.”
No comments on what this would do to Alberta’s already failing health are system as people refuse vaccinations for deadly diseases om the basis that a random internet stranger said they should? No?
They looked at USA’s ongoing dumpster fire to the south and said “that looks nice and warm.”
Conservatives have adopted the franchise model and applied it to politics. They conform themselves to head office (in this case Republicans in the US) and get to piggy back off the propaganda that gets put out by them. The US being the media powerhouse that it is, it’s pretty effective. Alberta is the most obvious example of this.
The first PM to do this was Mulroney with Reagan (and his -nomics bs that’s led us to this hellscape).
If we had been smarter back then we never would have elected that idjit in the first place. All he did was follow Reagan around like a lap dog.
Having lived through the Trump years in the USA I do not grok how anyone can think it a proper way to run a government. It was not even the proper way to run a trash fire.
You think you have it bad? I’m from Texas and can’t afford to leave!
Conservatives are a plague
I’m hoping it’s just political grand-standing fluff and no (further) damage to the health system. You can already refuse vaccines.
That said, employers requiring vaccination as condition of employment outside of some select sectors during COVID did feel like a line was crossed
I’m very libertarian (like the political stance, not the party) but even I don’t see a problem with an employer requiring a vaccination. Every site I work at requires people to be vaccinated against Covid among other things. Why would my employer not require the vaccination?
As a plus, it let us prune a couple of antivax idiots from our ranks.
Fundamentally, the only people against this simply don’t believe in covid. You don’t see them crying on the internet about employers not letting people work on construction sites without hard hats - it’s basic safety. As long as you accept that covid is dangerous, then you have no issue with employers requiring a vaccination.
It’s the same type of people who were against seatbelt regulations in the 1970s and helmet laws for motorcycles and bicycles later on.
People who only want to live in a society when the benefit to them is immediately obvious.
I basically agree, the only difference is that it’s something you put into your body with potential side effects (extremely rare of course) which feels like it’s crossing a different line than PPE.
Combine that with many employers never requiring other vaccines before but adding the COVID vaccine as a requirement for employment not just for new hires but people already employed and I think it was just a bit too far. Maybe if people had the option of really masking up or something instead and they refused that too would I feel better about it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m like triple or quadruple vaccinated for COVID at this point, but that’s because I felt it was the best course of action. I would’ve not been a fan of my employer requiring it even though it’s something I was going to do anyway.
How is that even possible? Are restrictions on firearms a provincial matter instead of a federal one?
Let’s not pretend that these people aren’t Ameriboo LARPers.
As far as I know its federal.
But now she’s laid the groundwork to blame the federal government for something she doesn’t have the jurisdiction to deal with in the first place.
Cool but does it stop businesses. Can an employee say if you don’t have this shot you can’t work? Cause clients don’t want you.
Not…yet.
Let her put this into effect, and then watch for the ‘no persecution based on vaccine status’ rhetoric.
Alrighty, I live in BC. Next pandemic I vote we close the road passes to Alberta to anyone not vaccinated.
Why wait? Albertans are already a plague of assholery in BC.
Its almost like they don’t enjoy spending time in the wasteland they’ve created 🤔
That seems a little extreme. Just “involuntarily treat” everyone who crosses the border.
Come on BC, pitting us against you is exactly the way they accumulate more power.
John Rustad doesn’t believe that COVID is a serious disease, regrets his COVID vaccine (sorry, “so-called vaccine”), supports anti-LGBTQ2+ agendas, doesn’t believe in climate change, and…has a good shot of being your next premier.
You’re in the same boat as us - christofascists controlling the narrative, then controlling the government, then the media, then our bodies and our lives. By lashing out at “stupid redneck Albertans” you’re wasting effort that should be spent taking down the people pushing this narrative. Meanwhile, we’re wasting effort defending ourselves (and counterattacking), instead of … that’s right - taking down the people pushing this narrative.
BC and Alberta together. And Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, the other four provinces and three territories - we need to STAND TOGETHER AGAINST FASCISM, and not let them drive wedges between us.
Solidarity.
That include the right to transition?
Iirc that’s a federal law, so provinces can’t fuck with it.
A federal Conservative government is a bit scary though.
Transgender rights in Canada, including procedures for changing legal gender and protections from discrimination, vary among provinces and territories, due to Canada’s nature as a federal state (but no one an be banned or discriminated against for changing their gender.)
Bill C-16, which passed in June 2017, added the words “gender identity and expression” in three instances. These words were added to the Canadian Human Rights Act as prohibited grounds for discrimination, and to the Criminal Code in two sections, the first dealing with hate speech and hate incitement and the second regarding sentencing for hate crimes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Canada
Stupid fascist fucker.
We have to stand up agsinst this evil. March in the streets. Strike. Hold the line.
My lunatic anti-vax, anti-pharma, anti-government mother in Grande Prairie will eat this shit up.
