Vaccine Mandates Caused Loss of Trust in Feds, Internal Polling Shows

Vaccine Mandates Caused Loss of Trust in Feds, Internal Polling Shows
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos makes an announcement on ending vaccine mandates for domestic travellers, transportation workers, and federal employees, in Ottawa on June 14, 2022. The Canadian Press/Patrick Doyle
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Internal polling conducted days before Ottawa announced it would suspend the vaccine mandates suggested the mandates were unpopular and caused a loss of “trust” in the federal government.

Vaccine mandates “represented overreach on the part of the federal government and unfairly infringed upon those who made the personal choice to not get vaccinated for Covid-19,” respondents told the Strategic Counsel, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.