Industry insiders are concerned that the federal government’s vaccine mandate on cross-border truckers will worsen already-strained supply chains, leading to shortages at grocery stores.
“Ottawa’s plan to require all truckers entering from the United States to show proof of vaccination starting Jan. 15 cannot happen at a worse time,” Sylvain Charlebois, professor and senior director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, said on Twitter on Jan. 10.
