It wasn’t that long ago — though some would rather you forget. Canada locked its own citizens inside their borders, treating the unvaccinated like second-class outcasts. From October 2021 until the summer of 2022, ordinary Canadians were barred from boarding planes and trains. Families were separated, jobs were lost, and lives were destroyed.
The government sold it as “public health.” But for the millions caught in the crossfire, it felt like something far darker: state-enforced segregation.
A Silent Air Travel Ban No One Dares Talk About
For the first time in Canadian history, citizens were told they couldn’t travel within their own country unless they complied with the government’s medical edicts. Want to see your dying parent across the country? Too bad. Want to fly to work in another province? Not allowed.
Air Canada — once seen as a national symbol — enforced these rules with an iron fist. No jab, no boarding pass. Canadians were grounded, trapped, and humiliated on their own soil.
The Unions That Betrayed Their Own
You’d think unions, the so-called guardians of workers’ rights, would have fought back. Instead, they stood down. Worse — many actively enforced mandates, cheering on suspensions and terminations of their own members. Nurses, pilots, truckers, and countless others were left jobless and voiceless.
The very institutions meant to protect labor became extensions of government power. The betrayal still burns.
Erased From Memory, But Not Forgotten
Now, politicians and media figures want to move on, sweeping the entire nightmare under the rug. But people remember. They remember being grounded. They remember losing their livelihoods. They remember unions abandoning them in their darkest hour.
And they remember who enforced the rules: the airlines, the corporations, the bureaucrats who treated them like criminals for daring to say no.
The scars of Canada’s vaccine apartheid haven’t healed — and for those who lived it, they never will.
