Canadians Were ‘Persuaded to Fear COVID-19 Too Much’: Constitutional Rights Group

Canadians Were ‘Persuaded to Fear COVID-19 Too Much’: Constitutional Rights Group
A near-empty Rene-Levesque Boulevard seen under Quebec's COVID-19 lockdown, in Montreal on Jan. 13, 2021. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press
Andrew Chen
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Two years have passed since governments first imposed lockdown measures across Canada in mid-March 2020, among other COVID-19 restrictions. The measures continued on an off over the two years, which is a deviation from the initial order of “two weeks to flatten the curve” and calls for an apology from officials, a constitutional rights group says.

On March 15, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom released a new report, titled “Two weeks to flatten the curve, two years to flatten our freedoms,” in which it said public health policies that were imposed and reimposed repeatedly have brought widespread economic, physical, and psychological damage upon Canadians.