> But you would get silenced in many places (e.g., banned from the Canada subreddit) for pointing to those statistics.

Canada has an incredibly censorious culture. I have been downvoted to -4 [0] [1] and flagged for merely suggesting that Canadians do not care about medical privacy (or privacy in general) in light of things like Bill C-22 and DNA collection at the US border [2].

Interestingly enough, questioning gender ideology and being trans critical (maybe even transphobic) is now acceptable on HN [3], but Canadians have something very dark to hide when it comes to respecting medical privacy given how hard posts of this nature are downvoted, flagged, and censored.

    Surprised he didn't willingly relinquish a sample.

    Privacy is not actually a core Canadian value.
    Neither in spirit nor in letter do Canadians actually
    demonstrate that they give a shit about privacy; see
    for instance Bill C-22.

    I invite commenters to demonstrate otherwise instead of
    merely downvoting incontrovertible facts.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571396

[2] https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/canadian-man-denied-en...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538165