With a lot of nations dropping COVID-19 constraints and the Canadian province with the harshest pandemic steps eliminating its mask required in the coming days, Conservative MPs preserved pressure on the far-leftist government of Trudeau about the federal vaccine mandate in transport.
“Divide and stigmatize, rinse and repeat. Which experts is the prime minister listening to? What is the specific advice? What year is the advice from? And why is the advice different in Canada than the rest of the world? It’s all secrets,” said Conservative MP and transport critic Melissa Lantsman during question period on May 4.
“Canadians want to know: when will this government end the outdated, ineffective, and vindictive mandates?”
“The Conservatives never miss an opportunity to try and pretend that Canadians are divided, when in fact, Canadians were united to 90 degree vaccination rates, to pulling together for their neighbours, to following public health rules, to being there for each other, and that’s why Canada pulled through better than many countries from this pandemic, why our economy is coming back so strongly,” replied Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“That’s why we will continue to listen to experts. That’s why we will continue to have Canadians’ backs.”
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam said back in March that the federal government was “shifting the emphasis from requirements to recommendations” with regards to constraints, however extremely little has actually been done considering that at the federal level to lighten limitations beyond alleviating border procedures mainly for the immunized.
“As you’ve seen across the country right now, the public health strategy is moving away from mandates to recommendations, and to use all manner of other means to increase coverage for the boosters,” Tam said during a virtual COVID-19 update on March 18.
Tam stated the vaccine mandates were under evaluation, however, there has actually been no clearness on that front. The vaccine required for the federal labor force should be evaluated 6 months after its imposition on April 6, and Treasury Board representative Martin Potvin informed The Epoch Times on May 4 there is “no further update available at this time.”
Quebec, which had the harshest COVID-19 limitations in the nation, announced that it would raise its mask mandates in a lot of public settings on May 14, while keeping the procedure in public transit and health care-related settings.
The province enforced curfews, and the unvaccinated were not able to go to places of worship, purchase alcohol or marijuana in state-owned centers, or store in huge box shops. A strategy to enforce a tax on the unvaccinated was revealed by the federal government however later on deserted.
“It’s May 4 in Canada and there are citizens that can’t leave the country, they can’t fly, they can’t take a train, they’ve lost their jobs, been laid off or fired because of a health choice,” said Conservative MP Michael Barrett.
“It’s May 4 in the United Kingdom and citizens have been thriving without mandates for nearly two months because their government followed the science and made the shift from mandates and control to personal responsibility.”
Trudeau duplicated that his federal government follows the recommendations of researchers and professionals, and because of that, the pandemic in Canada was not as bad as in the United States or the United Kingdom.
“Because we’ve been following the science and sticking to it, we will continue to, but it’s interesting the member opposite talks about the freedom of personal choice. I wonder if he’s willing to extend that to the personal choice of women to control their own bodies,” he said.
The prime minister discussed the argument of physical autonomy utilized by a few of those who decline vaccination to raise the problem of abortion, as dispute resurfaced today with the leakage of a draft U.S. Supreme Court viewpoint recommending the 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark choice legislating abortion at the federal level will be reversed.
According to the draft, the U.S. Supreme Court could be ready to return the power to enact laws on the problem to state legislatures, a few of which would likely follow up by enforcing numerous degrees of constraints on the treatment.
On May 3, Bloc Québécois MP Christine Normandin tried to pass a movement in your home of Commons verifying assistance for abortion, however a variety of Conservative MPs opposed it.
H/T The Epoch Times
