You can’t take a walk in the woods in Canada anymore? New Brunswick Premier says the quiet part out loud

Lately, Canadian politicians have been acting like helicopter parents who must “protect” all their precious little babies. Recently, the truth slipped out when New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt told reporters that the real reason for the bans isn’t to prevent fires at all – it’s because they won’t be able to rescue you if you got a big Ouchy and needed help.

As a volunteer firefighter, I have some understanding of fires. Our forest floor management in this country is atrocious, and we have such lenient fines for arson that recently, a man from Saskatchewan who was found guilty of lighting 30 different hay bale fires in just one month received only 18 months in prison.

It angers me to even have to use the word arson when describing what this man did – what he did wasn’t arson in my opinion, it was eco-terrorism. He put the lives, homes, businesses and wildlife of the entire province at risk, and his mental health battles don’t excuse that. I mention this to say that we need much harsher penalties for those who intentionally light fires that threaten our communities – we need to label this as a form of terrorism.

Now, I’ll address the bans in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, where they have said that going canoeing, hiking or fishing will somehow light the provinces on fire. They’ve also threatened jail time and upwards of $25,000 fines for violating their lunatic restrictions.

I think it’s safe to say that a ban on the use of motorized vehicles in forested areas and the ban on open fires makes perfect sense when the province is incredibly dry. However, what makes absolutely zero sense and can only be categorized as a grotesque overreach by power-hungry politicians is the choice to ban recreation in Canada’s great outdoors.

This isn’t about preventing fires; this is about power and seeing just how far they can go when abusing your charter rights. This is about power-drunk politicians not knowing their place anymore and a passive Canadian population that continually allows it. New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt said it herself: it’s not about preventing wildfires; it’s because, allegedly, they don’t have the staff to “save” you if they had to. Our governments think that they need to infringe on your rights to protect you from yourself!

“The notion that me going for a walk in the woods is going to cause a fire, I can understand why people think that that’s ridiculous, but the reality is it’s not that you might cause a fire, it’s that if you’re out there walking in the woods and you break your leg, we’re not gonna come and get you because we have emergency responders that are out focused on a fire that is threatening the lives of New Brunswickers.”

– New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt

Watching the Liberal left twist themselves into pretzels in defending these moronic restrictions has been quite something to watch unfold. To use a forest pun, they can’t see the forest from the trees on this issue. The logic I’ve seen used repeatedly is that because we can’t prevent bad actors (pre-crime guilty verdict), we must prevent all people from entering the woods.

Using the same insane logic, we can justify all sorts of government overreach and abuse. We can’t prevent drunk drivers from getting on the road – so let’s ban all cars. Worse yet, a vehicle could get into an accident and break out into flames, igniting the province – let’s ban all “non-essential” travel. Trains are known to cause sparks and cause grass fires near train tracks – we should ban all train traffic.

In closing, perhaps the scariest thing in Canada right now is Canadians. Why? Because I’ve seen large amounts of them consistently defend government overreach and corruption. I know Canadians don’t care about liberty because they trade it away every single time they’re told it will lead to more “safety”.

I’ll end with the following quote that perfectly sums up the situation.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. – Thomas Sowell

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