Ontario Hospitals Can Still Mandate COVID Vaccines for Employees Despite Ford’s Statement, MPP Says

Nurses and doctors hold a morning briefing about a patient at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, B.C., on June 4, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

An Ontario MPP says despite Premier Doug Ford’s statement that health-care workers don’t have to be COVID-19 vaccinated, health institutions can still mandate the policy on their own. 

Ford said on Nov. 3 that he won’t force hospital workers to be vaccinated in light of the challenges other provinces have had in implementing vaccine mandates in their health care institutions.