Rex Murphy: It is not, nor ever will be, rightly called a health tax. It’s a punishment tax. A punishment tax for exercising adult judgment on your own health. Who owns universal health care? Is it the citizens who fund it, or the politicians and bureaucrats who think they are in charge of it? Who, in Quebec and elsewhere, are now using as a bludgeon what was supposed to be a universal solace.
COVID-19 is not our biggest problem. It is that COVID is supplying our politicians with a lever, a plausible cover, for the abridgement or outright override of our country’s most fundamental understandings and principles.
Politicians are using COVID to gut the fundamentals of universal health care, drawing exceptions to its applications, naming who should receive its ministrations without barrier and who should not, and as a kite-tail to that vast and pernicious overreach, acting as amnesiacs as to the existence of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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