Dear Editor
In the Feb. 3 issue of the Shellbrook Chronicle, MLA Nadine Wilson reports having attended a "Freedom Rally" in Regina. She says they sang "O Canada" God keep our land glorious and free!"
I wonder if the thousands of homeless refugees in the world today will have second thoughts about risking their lives to come to Canada? What the protesters and especially democratically elected leaders like Ms. Wilson, and our MP Rosemarie Falk (posing with protesters) need to understand is that freedom is not divisible. We can't claim it for ourselves and deny it to anyone else who comes in our way, as the protesters in Ottawa and other places are doing. We hear the expression "my body, what I do with it is my business." Wrong! What I do with my body, what I say (or write) will affect somebody. (Unless of course I live somewhere on a remote island). Instead of protesting, why not be thankful to God for our Canada, the wonderful health care we have, and especially that God has blessed us with scientists, doctors and research workers who have discovered vaccines in the past that have saved millions of lives.
Can we honestly say we are wiser than they?
For the past two years now our prime minister, our premiers, health ministers and disease specialists have been advising (almost begging) people to get vaccinated. Though there may be some reasons why a person should be exempt, I am convinced that if everyone had listened to good sound advice, loss of lives, jobs and "freedom" could have been prevented.
Cornie Martens
Rabbit Lake
