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The Canadian government issued a lot of lockdowns during covid. The people who argued against these lockdowns were conservatives. The government was able to keep the lookdowns in place because the Canadian constitution actually does state the government must protect the health and safety of citizens. The government argued that removing the lockdown would go against the constitution. Also, interesting note, the rights of Canadians are ranked. Health and safety is above freedom of assembly, which made the government's argument even stronger. Conservatives definitely don't want the government to be legally compelled to protect the health of citizens. It would result in a whole bunch of rules and regulations they wouldn't like.
The argument being made in the article isn't genuine. They only want health and safety to be considered a priority in this one instance and nowhere else, because it helps them in this argument, but not in others.