Legal Organization Challenges BC Regional Government Over Vaccine Mandate for Volunteer Firefighters

Legal Organization Challenges BC Regional Government Over Vaccine Mandate for Volunteer Firefighters
Firefighters tackle a fire in West Kelowna on July 19, 2014. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
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A constitutional rights group says it is prepared to take legal action against a regional government in B.C. if it does not accommodate a local volunteer firefighter who asked to be exempt from its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy on the basis of religious grounds and natural immunity.

On April 28, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms sent a legal warning letter to the Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD), demanding “reasonable accommodation” to Crag Nygard for exemption from its vaccine mandate for all staff, including paid on-call volunteer firefighters.