When I first started watching this PSA, I thought it was a message against vaccines. The young healthy woman was double-vaxxed, she still caught COVID, and she still ended up in the hospital where she thought she would die. Surely this means the vaccines donβt work, right?
May 4, 2022 β Is this woman an actress, or is this her true story?
Two decades ago, when I was 4 years old, my parents immigrated to Canada from India in search of greater freedoms, autonomy and economic opportunities. Theyβre core Canadian values β enshrined in our national anthem, which gloriously heralds βThe True North strong and free.β
However, the past two years have seen a near complete erosion of the foundational liberal values that have attracted millions of immigrants like myself to this country.
Under the once-righteous guise of COVID safety and online protections, the Canadian government has taken its power to extreme levels once only imaginable β let alone permissible β in a dissent-stifling authoritarian state.