Name-Calling ‘Uniquely Unhelpful’ in Convincing Canadians to Get Vaccinated: Medical Expert

Name-Calling ‘Uniquely Unhelpful’ in Convincing Canadians to Get Vaccinated: Medical Expert
David Jacobs, president and diagnostic radiologist with the Ontario Association of Radiologists, testified at the House of Commons Health Committee on March 23, 2022. Screenshot via The Epoch Times
Andrew Chen
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The federal government has to develop more target-oriented policies to convince those who still haven’t received a COVID-19 vaccine to get their shots, while engaging in name-calling, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did, is “uniquely unhelpful” to that end, a medical expert told parliamentarians.

Trudeau used derogatory terms to describe unvaccinated Canadians, saying they are often racists, science-deniers, and misogynists during an interview on the French-language program “La semaine des 4 Julie” on Sept. 16, 2021. At a press conference days earlier, he called protesters demonstrating against federal vaccine policies “anti-vaxxer mobs.”