Posted on 08/12/2025 12:05:11 PM PDT by george76
Three Canadian provinces have outlawed woodland access due to concerns over wildfire risk and are now threatening massive fines or jail for Canadians who violate the lockdown and who go out into nature.
The restrictions in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland are prompting calls of warning as well as acts of civil disobedience from Canadians who view the bans as a tyrannical attempt to restrict the movements of the populace, using climate change as justification.
The region’s extended drought and continuing hot, dry weather are being blamed on climate change and the restrictions are evoking a strong reaction among Canadians who liken them to the COVID-19 lockdowns 5 years ago.
Authorities in the provinces say the sweeping restrictions on public lands are intended to mitigate the risk of accidental wildfires being caused by the presence of humans.
However, the policy to restrict the movements of the law-abiding is seen by some as extreme and unconstitutional as well as reminiscent of the kind of heavy-handed overreach that was common during the pandemic.
Some Canadians are challenging the lockdowns by engaging in peaceful civil disobedience and going into the woods despite the threat of fines and jail.
Air Force veteran Jeff Evely was among the first to challenge authorities in Nova Scotia by alerting provincial environmental officers that he was going to enter the woods across from their office last Friday.
Evely made good on his promise and was issued a $28,872.50 fine for walking into the woods.
Evely maintains that his civil disobedience is necessary pushback against authorities who believe that banning citizens from going for a walk in the woods because they might start a fire is unconstitutional, telling the Toronto Sun, “It’s about human dignity.”
Constitutional lawyer Marty Moore of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms took Nova Scotia’s ban to task, saying:
This law views people as the problem – not dangerous activities. This law is anti-human, and should someone find themselves on the wrong end of a charge – a massive charge, $25,000 dollar fine, for going into the woods, you can expect a constitutional challenge and a judicial review of this order.
Nova Scotia’s Minister of Natural Resources Tory Rushton defended the lockdowns, saying, “We all have a role to play in keeping our communities safe.”
The ban on human activity in the provinces is expected to last until at least October 15.
“Nova Scotia’s Minister of Natural Resources Tory Rushton defended the lockdowns, saying, “We all have a role to play in keeping our communities safe.”
So...you damn well better get vaxx’d and boosted!!
Canada is becoming a crazy police state right before our eyes.
Will Canada freeze the bank accounts of hikers?
The fines in Newfoundland is up to $150,000. Or a year in jail. Including for going into the forest on your own property.
Meanwhile, this is what actually happens in Canada when a mass arsonist is caught. 18 months Probation.
Anarcho-Tyranny.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/logan-sieben-sentencing-1.7590359
Please Annex Alta and Sask now !
Even as non-voting Territories. We don’t care.
Just save us from this.
You Commie Canucks are screwed.
We’re the government. We’ll make you safe. Stay in your house.
Coming soon to Canada:
Countrywide curfew
&
Carbon allowance
The Left has so bastardized language that the Drive-By Media and woke academia have shortened carbon dioxide to just carbon.
All life on Earth is carbon-based, so the Left singling out carbon as evil goes right along with The Party Of Death.
The Canadian Association of Carbon Allowance (CACA) will have daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and yes, lifetime carbon allowance limits. If you overdue your daily carbon allotment, you can “borrow” from your weekly or yearly allotment. If you borrow so much that your lifetime allotment is exhausted...... Oh well. You have outlived your allotment, and your usefulness to the State.
Over 2000 Canucks killed in car crashes last year.
Just saying….
When the Western and Northern Canadian Provinces join the USA and are welcomed with open arms, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland will not be admitted.
It’s the Leftest playbook as we saw being developed during the Covid lockdowns under penalty of fines. Rather than manage the forests, they go after the people.
The level of brainwashed zombies indoctrinated in leftist ideology is huge....the number that have TDS when its not even their president or country serves as how thoroughly gone most are.
That's theft of property, in my book.
I am not a big believer in “Pieces of Paper”. Liberia copied the US Constitution almost word for word. The people who live there matter more than legal documents.
Nevertheless, in Canada we have no property rights. They were deliberately excluded from the Pierre Trudeau Constitution.
So we have no right to go into our own woods. But we do have a “Right” to bicycle lanes.
And also, the “Property Rights” the Courts do recognize is the “property rights” of the Indian Bands to ownership of the whole country, appearenty.
What bunch of horse crap. If them rotten sons wanted to do something meaningful about the environment they would outlaw disposable diapers.
Canada voted for this so my sympathy is only with the people who voted against this nonsense.
I can only see one area that seems to have significant problems.
https://www.miramichi.org/oldfield-woodland-fire-updates
The next generation of Canadians will be like those monkeys held in captivity that are afraid to walk on the grass.
agenda 21 keep them in urban areas for better control
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