Trudeau says he never forced anyone to get vaccinated.
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I guess his understanding of "mandate" is different from mine.
Canada will place unvaccinated federal employees on unpaid leave and require COVID-19 shots for air, train and ship passengers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, as he unveiled one of the world's strictest vaccine mandate policies.
Federal employees will be required to declare their full vaccination status through an online portal by Oct. 29. Workers and passengers age 12 and older on trains, planes and marine transport operating domestically - which are federally regulated - must show they have been inoculated by Oct. 30.
"These travel measures, along with mandatory vaccination for federal employees, are some of the strongest in the world," Trudeau told reporters. "If you've done the right thing and gotten vaccinated, you deserve the freedom to be safe from COVID."
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The only people who pay attention to what Trudeau says are foreigners and rural Albertans who don’t know any better.
As a country we have moved past the pandemic and care little or nothing for what was or wasn’t federally mandated at the time. In any case, the vast majority of vaccine mandates were declared and enforced at the level of provincial governments. The federal government has very limited constitutional authority over public health measures in the country.
