Transport Department Offered Advice to Airlines on Rejecting COVID-19 Vaccine Exemptions: Internal Documents

Transport Department Offered Advice to Airlines on Rejecting COVID-19 Vaccine Exemptions: Internal Documents
People wait in line to check in at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on May 12, 2022. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
Peter Wilson
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Transport Canada lawyers offered advice to airlines on how to reject Canadians’ requests for religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination requirements for travel, internal documents show.

“These types of exemptions are anticipated to be granted very rarely,” said a November 2021 memo obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter through Access to Information records, along with several other transport department documents.