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Also posted on ZeroHedge<\/a> etc. with 350 comments<\/h2>\n

Canadian Hikers Get the COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment<\/a><\/h1>\n

by Jim Bovard<\/a><\/span> | Sep 1, 2025\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Canadian politicians are creating one bonfire after another of freedom and individual rights. COVID<\/span>\u00a0crackdowns established persecution precedents that politicians in some provinces refuse to allow to gather dust. Politicians are claiming the right to financially cripple anyone who makes a single misstep in violation of the latest idiotic decrees.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On August 5, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston decreed a $25,000 fine for anyone walking in the woods or otherwise violating a new prohibition that covered both government and private lands. The prohibition will continue until October. Houston declared, \u201cMost wildfires are caused by human activity, so to reduce the risk, we\u2019re keeping people out of the woods until conditions improve. I\u2019m asking everyone to do the right thing\u2014don\u2019t light that campfire, stay out of the woods and protect our people and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canadian politicians are exploiting wildfires the same way that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exploited COVID to lockdown the entire nation. One critic on X\/Twitter scoffed that \u201cthe province needs 10 weeks of no walking in the woods to flatten the curve\u201d\u2014paralleling the \u201ctwo weeks to flatten the curve\u201d crapola that initially sanctified the most onerous COVID restrictions. During the pandemic, Nova Scotia heavily fined citizens caught walking their dogs<\/span><\/a> or exercising in park.<\/p>\n

The government failed to document how the environmental peril situation this year was fundamentally different than in previous years. Author Peter Clark observed, \u201cFears of arson or climate hysteria appear to be behind bans on fishing & hiking in Nova Scotia\u2019s forests. Canada\u2019s forest fires have fallen almost half in the last 40 years & seem unrelated to weather or climate.\u201d At the same time that Nova Scotian politicians are treating every resident and visitor like an arsonist, Canadian governments have let actual arsonists go free with legal wrist slaps.<\/p>\n

Canadians are denouncing the new decree as \u201cclimate confinement\u201d\u2014an ominous development in a nation whose politicians have long swooned over the World Economic Forum<\/strong>. According to Travel and Tour News<\/span><\/a>, \u201cEven though the COVID-19 pandemic has officially ended, the consequences of restrictive policies are still being felt. With domestic travel restrictions now in place due to wildfire risks, many Canadians feel that their freedom to explore their country has been drastically reduced.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve turned the great outdoors into the Forbidden Forest<\/strong>,\u201d scoffed one critic. A photography website warned: \u201cPhotographing in the Woods in Nova Scotia Is Currently Illegal.\u201d The government decrees provoked a firestorm of opposition<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow does hiking in the woods with my dogs come across as a fire hazard?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease tell me the difference between a trail and an unpaved road.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m confused. We\u2019re banned from the woods? Half of us live in the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nova Scotia established a snitch line so people could report neighbors or hooligans who strolled in the woods, and it quickly received thousands\/tens of thousands of complaints.<\/p>\n

Many opponents of the anti-hiking decree would support a government ban on campfires or other fires in areas at risk of wildfires. But defenders of the ban have gone stir crazy (maybe they have been inside too long?). They have claimed that \u201chikers could cause fires by<\/span><\/a> dropping water bottles that might, in a remote theoretical scenario, focus sunlight like a magnifying glass.\u201d Also, hiking in the woods might cause an asteroid to hit the earth, so better safe than sorry.<\/p>\n

Canadian political mania has gone even further than in the progressive states south of the U.S.-Canadian border. Christine Van Geyn of the Canadian Constitution Foundation warns that \u201c<\/i>governments and institutions have embraced what\u2019s been called safetyism<\/i>: the belief that safety, especially from physical or emotional harm, should override all other values, including freedom, autonomy and open debate. When safety becomes the highest good, risk becomes intolerable, state control is normalized \u2018for your own good,\u2019 and dissent is cast as dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

But according to some Canadian political scorecards, the risk of wildfires apparently nullifies the risk of tyranny.\u00a0 <\/span>And since there will always be a risk of wildfires, tyranny will be a small price to pay for any purported risks politicians choose to suppress.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pre-emptive repression of hikers and dog walkers is symptomatic of regimes that feel entitled to unlimited power. The same mindset is driving Canada\u2019s persecution of the leaders of the COVID lockdown protests. According to Canada\u2019s top prosecutors, the only thing worse than tyranny is \u201cmischief.\u201d And the worst possible \u201cmischief\u201d is objecting to tyranny.<\/p>\n

The Canadian government is seeking an eight year prison sentence for one of the leaders of the COVID \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d protest that riled Ottawa in early 2022. In April, a court ruled that Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were not guilty of obstructing police or intimidation during the demonstrations. But they were convicted of \u201cmischief\u201d\u2014in part because the truckers in the forty mile convoy honked their horns to protest some of the most oppressive COVID mandates in the world.<\/p>\n

After Trudeau dictated that all truck drivers who cross the U.S. border must get COVID vaccines, a protest quickly snowballed and landed in Canada\u2019s capital. Trudeau responded by invoking the Emergencies Act, effectively dropping a legal nuclear bomb on his opponents. Canada\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the government was \u201cbroadening the scope of Canada\u2019s\u2026terrorist-financing rules so that they cover Crowd Funding Platforms and the payment service providers they use.\u201d The Trudeau government did not formally redefine horn honking as a terrorist offense but that didn\u2019t impede their crackdown. Banks were authorized to freeze the personal accounts of anyone suspected of donating to the truckers. No court order was necessary to strip suspected COVID dissidents of their property. The government conscripted towing companies to cart away the trucks of the protestors.<\/p>\n

Actually, the COVID vaccines were catastrophically failing to prevent infections at the same time Trudeau dropped an iron fist on anti-vax protestors. Almost 90% of<\/span><\/a> Canadian adults had been vaccinated by the start of 2022 but COVID cases were soaring<\/span><\/a>, setting records almost every week. Even though he was vaxxed and boosted, Trudeau himself<\/span><\/a> came down with COVID during the trucker protest.<\/p>\n

In January 2024, a Canadian federal judge ruled that<\/span><\/a> Trudeau\u2019s use of the Emergencies Act had been unreasonable, illegal, and unconstitutional. Trudeau\u2019s regulations \u201ccriminalized the attendance of every<\/span><\/a> single person at those protests regardless of their actions.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The judge slammed \u201cthe absence of any objective standard\u201d for freezing bank accounts. There was no \u201cthreat to the security of Canada\u201d \u2013 regardless of Trudeau\u2019s panic about so many Canadians scoffing at his decrees and his majesty. But the court decision provided no relief for any of the victims whose bank accounts were unjustifiably seized or whose freedom and privacy was shredded.<\/p>\n

Unless it is overturned, the Nova Scotia ban on hiking, photographing, and dog walking will set a precedent that will ravage far more Canadian freedom. Such policies will create a toxic legal precedents that could prove far more disruptive in this nation than the occasional smoke from Canadian wildfires.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21863"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21872,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21863\/revisions\/21872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}