Category: Travel mandate

Missed Funerals and Separated Families: Stories of Life-Altering COVID Restrictions

Unvaccinated Canadians were able to take a domestic flight once again on June 20, but for some, the damage had already been done, after having missed key life moments due to the vaccine mandate. Not being there for a loved one in times of need, missing a funeral, and couples living across the border not…


Compassionate Exemptions Cast Aside by Ottawa’s Desire for ‘Strong’ Travel Vaccine Mandate: Court Documents

The federal government made a conscious and well-thought-out decision to impose a strict travel vaccination mandate that wouldn’t allow compassionate exemptions, court documents reveal. The documents obtained recently by The Epoch Times relate to four lawsuits challenging the mandate that have shed some light on the thinking that led to a policy that aimed to…


Canada’s So-Called ‘World-Leading’ Travel Vaccine Mandate Remained an Outlier, Official Testifies

The Canadian bureaucrat who wrote the policy for mandatory vaccination in transportation thought Canada would be leading the way with this measure, but instead it remained an outlier, court documents reveal. In a briefing prepared for Transport Minister Omar Alghabra before the mandate came into force in late October 2021, the policy was presented as…


Canada’s ‘World-Leading’ Travel Vaccine Mandate Remained an Outlier, Official Testifies

The Canadian bureaucrat who wrote the policy for mandatory vaccination in transportation thought Canada would be leading the way with this measure, but instead it remained an outlier, court documents reveal. In a briefing prepared for Transport Minister Omar Alghabra before the mandate came into force in late October 2021, the policy was presented as…


Canada’s ‘World-Leading’ Travel Vaccine Mandate Remained an Outlier Among G7, Official Testifies

The Canadian bureaucrat who wrote the policy for mandatory vaccination in transportation thought Canada would be leading the way with this measure, but instead it remained an outlier, court documents reveal. In a briefing prepared for Transport Minister Omar Alghabra before the mandate came into force in late October 2021, the policy was presented as…


Health Canada Did Not Recommended Travel Vaccine Mandate, Official Behind the Policy Testifies

The federal government bureaucrat who wrote the policy that prevented unvaccinated Canadians from flying or travelling by train said she has no recollection of health officials recommending a vaccine mandate for travel, according to court documents. Jennifer Little, director general of COVID Recovery at Transport Canada, made the comments on June 9 and 10 while…