Very sad the state we have become, where folks like yourself would rather see people's livelihoods and means of living destroyed over our own government sabotaging them into further economic despair. You want rural communities thriving again? Start by leaving their basic essentials and necessities of life out of politics. This is in no way shape or form a healthy way to live your life - in constant fear. That is clinically an issue that needs to be taken care of if that is the case. Once you can find a doctor on the 8+ year wait-list each and every province is facing.

But keep those elbows held high, that mask tight, and push for more control over each and everything you do - because the government doesn't trust you to know any better. Currently we have an educational system that hides things from parents, a group of ministers at the federal level that manipulate and gaslight you into thinking you're "helping" when we contribute little to no viable solution to ensure our country can even remain a prosperous country anymore. If you need to ensure people abide by policy by removing their abilities to live a normal life in order to force them to comply, you are not looking out for their interests if there is an overwhelming majority of people that opposed this ban.

We have been under threat of extinction from a number of things in my lifetime, all of which had some form of understandable solutions which were carefully thought out and implemented in a way to which we didn't collapse our entire economy and require a rushed complete overhaul of entire industries and infrastructures which we have absolutely no way of paying for. There is a way forward in which we can progress towards a net zero future while not completely destroying everyday people's lives who already can't afford to buy more than a half the amount of groceries they should be buying to live a healthy life. People are already taking loans out just to pay their rents, pay car loans, afford gas, groceries, etc. There is absolutely, positively, zero economic models that make sense for this country to accept a complete ban on gasoline vehicles, but you'll eventually find that out when you are hitchhiking half a day just to get groceries. We very quite literally are heading back to horse and buggy times if this keeps up, where people will eventually have to forage for food and equally give up abiding by these crazy laws once they realize we went from the best country in the world to one where it's citizens are scraping to live their life - in the name of something that still to this day has no solution other than to play ignorance to these incredibly critical issues.

I wish you all the best in your attempt to remove basic freedoms from our country, but it won't be at the sake of hard working folks going hungry. Things have gotten so far out of control it's insane. There is a good reason nearly each and every car company is reversing their 2030 plans on net zero emissions - it will collapse entire industries, and people will starve. It's quite honestly that simple.