Enough with the “experts”!
For years, Canadians were told to simply defer, comply, and stop asking questions and look where that has left us.
A healthy democracy cannot function by sidelining citizens while unelected experts, insiders, and institutions make decisions behind closed doors.
What about the people who actually live with the consequences of those decisions?
When do citizens get a meaningful say?
And most importantly, when do we get accountability from the so-called “experts” and public officials who shut down businesses, destroyed livelihoods, coerced people into taking a novel medical intervention, and then abandoned or dismissed those who were harmed?
Are citizens simply expected to stay silent, look the other way, and pretend none of this happened?
That is not accountability. That is institutional cowardice. And then those same institutions wonder why public trust has collapsed. Trust is not maintained through censorship, coercion, or moral lectures. It is earned through honesty, transparency, accountability, and the courage to admit when harm was done.
Expertise has a role. But so do transparency, accountability, open debate, and democratic participation. A free society is not built on blind deference. It is built on an informed and engaged public.