Do people in rural New Brunswick and Nova Scotia really like lockdowns? In New Hampshire, seemed like no one liked that shit. It felt like I was back in a deep red state, where no one wears a mask except employees of grocery chains and the token elderly person even back in 2020. I always assumed that people in that part of the world were just hardcore fishermen/mountain men/foresty types who didn't give a shit about a virus so much as survival, and that extended to living in all the economically deprived towns in that region since a student of history and economics knows how fucked over most of Atlantic Canada has been alongside other economic bullshit in New England.
Do people in rural New Brunswick and Nova Scotia really like lockdowns? Absolutely not. I reckon it's more a problem with 'The System' than popular opinion. New Brunswick elected a Conservative majority in their
2020 election, and Nova Scotia had a major upset Conservative majority landslide in their
2021 election, and if you look at Nova Scotia's electoral map, party allegiance seems almost perfectly representational of rural areas voting Tory, suburban/town areas voting Liberal, and urban areas voting NDP. Something else that had Nova Scotia in the news for a while was that Nova Scotia, being connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, has one road going in or out, and the ruralites who live near that critical piece of infrastructure decided to blockade the one road in/out in protest of the covid restrictions (
See more here). The people of that region were threatening to blockade the whole province again in solidarity with the trucker protests, which is what caused that tyrannical NO PROTESTING rule to be implemented, which has been making the rounds in international media (
See more here).
This issue in the Maritimes is emblematic of a broader issue in Canadian politics. People are very unhappy with the state of society in the seemingly never-ending Covid-19 era, but there is nothing they can do about it. It may be seemingly impossible to get rid of Justin Trudeau from Ottawa, but nearly every province has purged the Liberals from their provincial legislatures over the last few years.
Currently, the Liberals only control the provincial legislature of Newfoundland, as well as the Yukon territory. Other than Newfoundland, 8 provinces have swung right, except for the 9th, BC, which swung left, presumably because they do not have a provincial Conservative party, so they can only reject the Liberals by voting NDP.
And yet, what has come of this? Absolutely nothing. The Cuckservatives are exactly the same as the Liberals, along with the NDP administration of BC. All provinces are tyrannically mistreating their people. There is no escape. There is not a single province serving as a test case to see what happens if you just let people live their lives, like in the US with states like Texas or Florida. Nowhere to run. Canadians cannot even flee the country, because vaccine-free individuals have been banned from all flights, as well as from crossing the US land border. This is absolutely unconstitutional, but our constitution doesn't seem to be worth the paper it's written on, these days. Those friends I have managed to keep in touch with, despite being barred from virtually all public spaces via vaccine passports, often talk about moving someplace like Florida as if it were the Promised Land, and they try to come up with harebrained schemes to get around all the restrictions, like buying a boat and sailing down to Mexico, or chartering a boat to take them to Saint Pierre and Miquelon so they can fly out from there, since it's French jurisdiction, which does not have the same vax requirements for flights.
All these restrictions are mentally, spiritually, and financially crushing. People want it, no, need it to stop, but no one is listening, and discontented Canadians are not even allowed to leave. Perhaps this gives you an idea of why these protest movements are kicking off with such fervour.
