And yet, among healthcare workers they are standing at about 80% vaccinated and 20% unvaccinated….why? Personally I am fully vaccinated so I’m on the outside looking in on this question.
Trudeau's civil service vaccine mandate isn't a real thing
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On Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated that all federal civil servants will have be to vaccinated. He declared it one of his topic priorities.
But missing from Trudeau’s announcement were an “Or else?” and a “When?”
Trudeau was always pretty dodgy about person costs for vaccine-hesitant federal workers. Would they lose their jobs, be reassigned, suspended without pay?
Trudeau was allowed to get away with this by a press corps that showed almost no interest in the specifics, but instead were enamoured with Trudeau’s trendy promise. (As they always are.)
It didn’t matter that Trudeau’s vaccine mandate promise was hollow, like most of his promises. He was permitted to use it to club Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, who recognized the impracticality of Trudeau’s zero-tolerance tough talk.
O’Toole, reasonably, said all federal workers would have to be vaccinated or subject themselves to frequent COVID test to ensure they weren’t infected.
Any vaccine mandate would cover just over 300,000 direct civil servants. Given that Ottawa would be lucky to get 90 per cent of them to double vax, that means Trudeau always had to figure out what to do with about 30,000???
I can’t imagine the Liberals having the guts to fire so many public workers, so they were always going to have to go the way of O’Toole – vax or test.
Nevertheless, Trudeau got away with insisting O’Toole wasn’t serious about the pandemic because the Tory boss wasn’t going to force all federal workers to get shots, even though there was no realistic way Trudeau was going to, either.
Now the PM has repeated his mandatory vaccine promise as official policy and guess what? Not only is there no threat to fire uncooperative civil servants, there’s no deadline by which they must show proof of vaccination.
Trudeau’s vaccine promise is as meaningless as if it were a promise about reconciliation, clean drinking water, keeping deficits small, electoral reform or treating women with respect.