Air Carriers Widely Uneven in Granting Travel Vaccine Mandate Religious Exemptions: Internal Documents

Air Carriers Widely Uneven in Granting Travel Vaccine Mandate Religious Exemptions: Internal Documents
Planes at the Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on March 20, 2020. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
Noé Chartier
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The power to grant religious exemptions from the travel vaccine mandate that the federal government delegated to air carriers was described by Air Canada as “illegal” and “constitutionally flawed” and led to broad discrepancies on how unvaccinated travellers were treated by different airlines, internal documents reveal.

And although Transport Canada left it up to carriers to decide what constitutes a “sincerely held religious belief,” the department monitored data relating to enforcement of its vaccine mandate for travellers and personnel in the transportation sector.

Noé Chartier
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Noé Chartier is a senior reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times. Twitter: @NChartierET
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