🇨🇦 Synagogue attacker Sean Ward was embroiled in lawsuit against military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate that forced him out

The ugliest part here is not complicated: a man carried out a hate attack on a synagogue and deserved to be stopped. But watch the state-media machine rush to bolt that crime onto every dissenter from the COVID regime. The fact pattern, as reported, is that Ward was one of 128 military plaintiffs alleging coercion, Charter breaches, misuse of authority, and career destruction over the mandate. That case stands or falls on its own facts, not on the later crimes of one plaintiff.

Ottawa’s line was always the same: obey lawful authority, take the shot, sacrifice your rights for readiness. Yet even the lawsuit says the policy was used to demonstrate leadership and boost public uptake, meaning the military was drafted into political theatre instead of national defence. Classic Trudeau-era governance: turn institutions into propaganda tools, punish dissent as moral failure, then let everyone pretend the abuse never happened. One deranged attacker does not launder a rotten policy into wisdom.

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