Patrick Carroll on the gap between the vaccinated and unvaccinated in Canada

It’s hard to deny that Canada is well on its way to creating two classes of citizens, the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.  Activities that were once considered basic human rights, such as assembling in various social settings or boarding a flight, have now become “privileges” that are reserved for the vaccinated class alone. 

In many ways, these policies are eerily reminiscent of the laws that were used to target marginalized groups in the past such as women, blacks, and jews.  Of course, the oppression in those cases was often far more egregious.  But the moment we concede that some people should have more rights than others, we are operating within the same paradigm.  The differences between those historical injustices and the present-day treatment of the unvaccinated are merely differences of degree, not kind.

~ Patrick Carroll, "Vaccine Passports Have Come to Canada. Don’t Expect the Canadian Constitution to Stop Them," FEE.org, August 30, 2021