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[–] Dearche 2 points 12 hours ago

It's just insane that he can say these things out loud during a rally as his prime talking point, and people actually support his view.

Denying rights for the sake of what? Perceived safety? This is literally how so many of the greatest trageties happened in this world, including this country.

I'm a proud Canadian, but I am also hyper-aware of the fact that my own countrymen were rounded up, had their property confiscated, and put into detention centers less than a century ago for the sake of "safety". That was the Japanese during WWII. Happened here and in the US, despite many of them volunteering to fight the Nazis the moment Canada entered the war. Some even managed to get deployed to Europe before their family members got locked up "just in case" some of them would side with Japan.

Every time someone mentions the infringement or revocation of rights, I'm reminded of that time thousands of completely innocent people got treated as cattle because of their appearances. This can happen to any group, for any reason the moment we allow the government to hold such power against us.

Would Conservative voters like it if PP got voted in and implemented such laws, then a few elections down the line, voting Conservative in the past is enough to get you locked up? Because this is exactly the sort of powers you are giving the government by agreeing with such policies. Hell, for voting for PP in general when he's so openly pushing for such laws.

I'm not for single issue voting, but I do think when someone has this bad of an idea, that single issue should disqualify someone from getting people's votes.