Getting ‘Up-to-Date’ with Vaccination Will Reduce Need for COVID Restrictions: Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Northern Affairs, Dan Vandal, visit with nursing students, Rene Piche and Diane Pineau, at the School of Nursing in the St Boniface University in Winnipeg, on Sept. 1, 2022. John Woods/The Canadian Press

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says increasing COVID-19 booster uptake among Canadians is important to reduce the need for the type of restrictions imposed in recent years as winter approaches.

“If we are able to hit that 80, 85, 90 percent of Canadians up-to-date on their vaccinations, we'll have a much better winter with much less need for the kinds of restrictions and rules that were so problematic for everyone over the past years,” Trudeau said on Sept. 1 while visiting the St. Boniface University in Manitoba.