Canada’s ‘World-Leading’ Travel Vaccine Mandate Remained an Outlier Among G7, Official Testifies

Canada’s ‘World-Leading’ Travel Vaccine Mandate Remained an Outlier Among G7, Official Testifies
(L–R) Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos make an announcement on ending vaccine mandates for domestic travellers, transportation workers, and federal employees, in Ottawa on June 14, 2022. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press
Noé Chartier
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The Canadian bureaucrat who wrote the policy on mandatory vaccination for travel and transportation thought Canada would be leading the way with this measure, but instead it remained an outlier, court documents reveal.

In a briefing prepared for Transport Minister Omar Alghabra before the mandate came into force in late October 2021, the policy was presented as a “world-leading vaccination requirement for travel.”

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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