Commentary Writing in late November for CBC, Dr. Cory Neudorf, a Saskatchewan Medical Health Officer, told Canadians that a pandemic is no time to insist on individual rights. The pandemic, wrote Neudorf, requires that citizens “think beyond themselves to fight a common enemy.” He contended that: “Infectious diseases can only be managed through a collective public health response, requiring less emphasis on the right to make individual health choices.” Compliance Shouldn’t Be the Only Test of Civic Virtue In the early stages of the pandemic, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and most public authorities regarded the average citizen’s obedience of COVID-related edicts as a sign of public assent. Once the removal of Donald Trump opened the door for the North American left to support vaccines inherited from his “Warp Speed” initiative, progressive administrations turned to groupthink and message control. Private-sector employees and small business owners complied with lockdowns, which led to lost …