Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday detailed a vaccination program for federal employees that exempts more than 200,000 workers and does not require automatic proof of immunization. Exempted employees include call centre operators, federal judges, meat inspectors, park wardens, postal workers, tax auditors, Commons and Senate staff, soldiers, sailors and air crew and members of the public entering federal buildings: “The Canadian public service is vast.”
In the mean time, watch as the singular, unaccountable government exempt itself and others in its sphere while it punishes others:
Canada is facing a potential wave of terminations tied to mandatory workplace vaccine policies as a growing number of employers require workers to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 — or risk losing their jobs, legal experts say.
Governments, institutions and companies have spent months hammering out vaccine mandates in a bid to curb an unrelenting pandemic fuelled by variants.
As employer deadlines to be fully vaccinated approach, unvaccinated workers could soon be placed on unpaid leave or terminated altogether, lawyers say.
"We’ve been contacted by thousands of people from across Canada who all have these ultimatums in front of them saying they have to be vaccinated by a certain date or risk losing their jobs," employment lawyer Lior Samfiru, a partner with Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, said in an interview.
"We're going to see the biggest wave of terminations we've seen since the pandemic started," he said, noting that his firm has been contacted by workers in a range of industries including health care, education, banks, construction and restaurants.
"It will be significant."
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Federal managers claim they will fire unvaccinated employees though it breaches union contracts. One group of MPs in the Commons yesterday demanded cabinet go further and abolish religious exemptions under the Canadian Human Rights Act: “We categorically oppose it.”
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Perhaps the PM could be asked at his next presser how many millions his Liberal government has allocated towards severance payments and legal fees for defence of grievances and lawsuits related to his public-sector vaccine mandate
— Ryan O'Connor (@rpoconnor) October 7, 2021
Wherever did you find the nurses or the money?:
Quebec has recruited just over 1,000 nurses to work full time in the public health system after announcing bonuses to address chronic staffing shortages, the province’s health minister said Thursday.
Christian Dubé said 1,007 nurses have signed on so far and the government is also in talks with about 1,900 other nurses to see if they will take on a full-time work load.
“I am extremely encouraged and I have to tell you it’s just the beginning,” he told reporters in Quebec City.
Last month, Premier François Legault announced one-time financial incentives ranging from $12,000 to $18,000 amid an urgent lack of nurses in the public system. He described it as a “mini revolution” following months of pandemic-induced stresses that have contributed to a shortage of 4,300 nurses in the province.
Does Premier Legault mean to tell everyone that there were 1,000 nurses sitting idle during what is constantly dubbed an earth-shattering pandemic?
Damn right:
Every measures imposed since ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ was sold as a way to bring back normal life. Instead it has served to further erode our freedoms and entrench government tyranny.
— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) October 8, 2021
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