Commentary
From sea to shining C-minus, the authorities do not trust Canadians, and we trust them not to. Nova Scotia banned walking in the woods lest we dunces set the place ablaze with incandescent hiking boots, while Vancouver banned teaching your own kid to swim in city pools. Welcome to government of the expert, by the expert, for the expert.
It’s a dangerous convergence of bog-standard public-sector arrogance with a general modern attitude of Machbarkeit, the notion that anything developed through trial-and-error, human or even evolutionary, can be done better by experts using abstract logic and linear algebra. Hence, meat from factories, or the bizarre recent item saying “Scientists Create ‘Living’ Material That Sucks Carbon Dioxide From The Air.”…