As tens of thousands of unvaccinated workers are ready to lose their jobs–choosing bodily autonomy over a forced experimental vaccination–a curious trend is emerging: vaccine mandates in large institutions in Quebec and Ontario are being dropped or extended.
Unlike universities with smaller staffing numbers, vaccine requirements were completely removed for Quebec school staff on Oct. 27 and Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board staff on Oct. 26. Termination day for unvaccinated Quebec’s 22,000 healthcare workers (HCWs) was pushed back 1 month from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15 and for the 4,600 unvaccinated Toronto District School Board (TDSB) staff from Nov. 1 to Nov. 21.
These mandate peel-backs and extensions are not based on an improving epidemiological situation due to high vaccine uptake, as the Quebec Ministry of Health would have you believe. Instead, it would seem that govt officials and institutions are attempting to stave off politically unwise healthcare shortages during a “pandemic” and further school disruptions for children and parents, which disastrously fuelled unprecedented levels of mental health issues and suicides in children and havoc in the lives of working parents. Perhaps the vaccine mandates are starting to crumble under the growing weight of lawsuits against employers and calls to MPPs to stop the unconstitutional and unlawful no-job-no-jab policies.
The path forward remains unclear, and, though BC horrifically just put 6,000 BC HCWs on unpaid leave Oct. 26–destroying the lives of many and creating an unnecessary healthcare crisis–Quebec and Ontario have a chance to right this unethical and dangerous vaccine-mandate nightmare.
