Canadian Orwellian world: Lockdowns, vaccines passports and more

So, I hesitated a few minutes, after receiving this message.
It’s clearly “fear porn” but, Geezus, what isn’t, in these “interesting” times?
But, if enough eyes get on it, maybe it will be rendered “alternate timeline” material, maybe
Here it is, I hope the forum data base allows the screen shots.

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So, Eastern Provincial Canadians, what do you make of this?
Anyone in the “Huron and Bruce Counties” or “Goderich” areas?

“The Canadian Armed Forces will be conducting an emergency exercise in Huron and Bruce Counties between Friday, May 3 and Sunday, May 5, 2024. Goderich residents will notice a military presence throughout Town as soldiers will be stationed in the community over the weekend.

There is no reason for concern regarding this exercise. It is being conducted to create a more challenging, realistic training exercise for soldiers. Soldiers will be conducting fire fighting training, wellness checks, simulated search and rescue operations, establishing cooling centers, as well as other activities. These exercises will be conducted throughout Huron and Bruce Counties.

Wellness checks or "door knocks" will be performed in Goderich on Saturday, May 4. Soldiers will be going door-to-door and speaking with residents to simulate what would happen if they were asked to check on the well-being of residents during an actual emergency.

All measures are being taken to ensure minimum inconvenience to those in the area. Members of the public are asked to take extra caution if approaching military vehicles and troops and are thanked in advance for their understanding and co-operation.

Questions can be directed to 31 Canadian Brigade Group Public Affairs Officer, Lt Paul Verheye at paul.verheye@forces.gc.ca.

Exercise Poster

The Facebook comments range from “oh, I feel so safe and looked after”, to “ military knock on MY door? A long barrel is greeting them, on opening”.
Strange days, indeed!
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So, Eastern Provincial Canadians, what do you make of this?
Anyone in the “Huron and Bruce Counties” or “Goderich” areas?

“The Canadian Armed Forces will be conducting an emergency exercise in Huron and Bruce Counties between Friday, May 3 and Sunday, May 5, 2024. Goderich residents will notice a military presence throughout Town as soldiers will be stationed in the community over the weekend.

There is no reason for concern regarding this exercise. It is being conducted to create a more challenging, realistic training exercise for soldiers. Soldiers will be conducting fire fighting training, wellness checks, simulated search and rescue operations, establishing cooling centers, as well as other activities. These exercises will be conducted throughout Huron and Bruce Counties.

Wellness checks or "door knocks" will be performed in Goderich on Saturday, May 4. Soldiers will be going door-to-door and speaking with residents to simulate what would happen if they were asked to check on the well-being of residents during an actual emergency.

All measures are being taken to ensure minimum inconvenience to those in the area. Members of the public are asked to take extra caution if approaching military vehicles and troops and are thanked in advance for their understanding and co-operation.

Questions can be directed to 31 Canadian Brigade Group Public Affairs Officer, Lt Paul Verheye at paul.verheye@forces.gc.ca.

Exercise Poster

The Facebook comments range from “oh, I feel so safe and looked after”, to “ military knock on MY door? A long barrel is greeting them, on opening”.
Strange days, indeed!
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It feels ominous. It sends a message.

I wonder why the town council, fire departments, police are not the headliners instead of the Canadian military or even with the military. Maybe that is happening, engagement with local emergency services and just not reported. But looking through local news reports, no mention of interaction between the local services and soldiers. In real life, that would have been, well, realistic, cooperation between the army and the civilians. So this is more realistic for what scenario in the future? For what country?
 
Maybe it's all just normal training. The CDN military also has a mandate to assist during disasters, and has a long record of doing decent work to protect the people.

OP LENTUS is the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) response to natural disasters in Canada.

Provincial and territorial authorities are the first to respond when a major natural disaster occurs in Canada. If they become overwhelmed, they may ask the CAF for help. When the CAF responds to such a crisis, it is known as Operation LENTUS.

Operation LENTUS follows an established plan of action to support communities in crisis. This plan can be adapted to multiple situations. These might take the form of forest fires, floods, ice storms, or hurricanes.

You can click on the OP LENTUS link and see their community support operations since about 2010.
 
Maybe it's all just normal training. The CDN military also has a mandate to assist during disasters, and has a long record of doing decent work to protect the people.

You can click on the OP LENTUS link and see their community support operations since about 2010.
OP LENTUS and your post show me how helpful and benign this could be, lol! Boy the last few years have made me suspicious of our 'government' and for good reason.

I wish I were closer and could go and observe the exercise. I can imagine it might be enjoyable to talk to soldiers coming to the door, practicing checking on people.

To iamthatis, thank you, I like the reminder of better times past and the possibility of better times in future and assistance with perspective on an ongoing effort to see reality. There is a balance that's hard to perceive and hold to, especially when tired and worn out. It's not that for 'better times in future' I expect the our government to become honest and responsive, it's that changes are coming. I hope it'll mean a change is as good as a rest, but somehow, I doubt that, lol!
 
Maybe it's all just normal training. The CDN military also has a mandate to assist during disasters, and has a long record of doing decent work to protect the people.
Yes, I agree, “normal training” goes on in emergency response organizations all the time.
I also understand, first hand, the “long record of decent work”, our CDN military, police, and emergency responders have done, and DO, in times of disasters.
I have participated in many such training operations in the past.
For the greater part of my working career, I was a fully certified Emergency Medical Response/Emergency Medical Dispatcher in a large city, in Northern Alberta.
I have coordinated and worked many such “training events”, with the above mentioned organizations.
So, thanks for the explanation, but I’m good.

That wasn’t my point for posting the article.

I asked if anyone “from that area” in the Eastern Provinces, could maybe comment, because, as you may well have noticed, Canadians differ politically and socially from province to province.

What is the general public’s mood, the attitudes, in those small communities where these training events are being held?
For example, there is a rather large settlement of mennonites living in that area, what are their sentiments, have they become more isolated in these post covidiot “strange days”?

It’s the heightened suspicious, paranoid, polarization of the public, that I was inquiring about.

Did you read the comment I mentioned, from the Facebook post of “long barrel in the face”?

So, with that clarification, is there a forum member in Ontario who might hazard a guess at how the local population in the “Huron and Bruce Counties” or “Goderich” areas, may respond to these training events?
 
For example, there is a rather large settlement of mennonites living in that area, what are their sentiments, have they become more isolated in these post covidiot “strange days”?
I can't answer the question you asked because I'm from Quebec and don't know anyone. But I'd like to add a parenthesis regarding something related to Mennonites in Ontario. I looked up with the search function if I wrote about it somewhere before, but it seems like no. And this should be known.

My father's friend who lived in London Ontario reported a lot of info to us during the Covid times. I speak in the past tense because she died of cancer in June 2022 after battling for more than a year. To paint a quick portrait: she was a psychotherapist and ran her own clinic in collaboration with other health specialists. Her husband was a Doctor and they traveled and lived in at least 20 countries over their lifetime. So they have a certain level of knowledge.

One of her clients was Amish (from a community near London) and told her they got threatened by some government official: "Bury back your crops or we'll spray them with Agent Orange." So... Apparently they sold their land and were moving to Paraguay.
She also moved to Paraguay in Oct 2021, right before the Vax mandate, or else "no more traveling/QR code vax passport" thing because she did not want to take the injection. Apparently, there was something like 10 Canadian families moving to Paraguay on her flight that day.

Huron County is located 1h20 min from London. So it's quite the same surroundings...
 
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