Lifestyle choices of alcohol, cannabis, cigarettes, etc are heavily taxed to compensate for potential increase in health care needs. Over-eating is not taxed, but it has similar increased costs for personal health care. People who make unpopular personal choices are financially accountable for those choices.
Health ministers make recommendations to provincial governments regarding pandemic restrictions and mask-use. Politicians don't make decisions about restrictions. Politicians are the messengers who communicate health recommendations - which are based on science and designed to ensure that hospitals are not overwhelmed and patients are not triaged.
The protesters want Trudeau to tell provincial governments how to manage pandemic restrictions (which constitutes a loss of freedoms at the provincial level), and they are demanding that federal and provincial governments ignore health ministers and medical doctors.
Protesters have made Prime Minister Trudeau and provincial leaders the bad guys when health experts are making the decisions. Let's put blame where it belongs. Canadian medical experts are to blame and are responsible for pandemic restrictions. If the protesters spent 5 minutes thinking about the origin of pandemic restrictions, they would never have mentioned Trudeau. Someone else put it in their heads that Trudeau calls the shots on provincial pandemic restrictions, and they didn't question it.
That's interesting. In most of the states in the U.S., public health officials are advisory to elected officals, such as the governors, or the state legislatures. They aren't able to make public health decisions for the state, only elected officials can do that.