Commentary Are we there yet? Can Canada under the current “state of emergency” (how many states of emergency can legislators declare in two years?) be officially categorized as the latest in the dwindling and discredited ranks of the third world’s police states? The very cornerstone of democracy is the right of every citizen to disagree with, and to express his disagreement with, his government. That is, in essence, what distinguishes modern democracy from the tyrannies of antiquity, the divine-right monarchies of the Middle Ages, and the fascist and communist totalitarian utopias of the previous century. But political dissent is now a crime in Canada. Under the Emergencies Act, the Trudeau government is empowered to seize the bank accounts of anyone—permanently revoking his credit, rendering him destitute, homeless, and unemployable—who has ventilated, or continues to ventilate, any opinion about vaccine mandates at variance with the regime. (If you’re one of hundreds …