Two days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the 2021 election, a confidential government memo indicated the decision to receive the COVID vaccine was split along political party lines.
The memo from the Privy Council Office, dated Aug. 13, 2021, and titled “Emerging Evidence on Covid-19,” said voters who supported the Liberals and NDP were more likely to get a COVID shot than Conservative voters.
The memo was obtained through an access to information request, according to Blacklock’s Reporter on June 8, and dated two days before Trudeau called the federal election on Aug. 15, 2021.
At the time, Trudeau announced he would campaign on a mandatory vaccination policy, which would see unvaccinated Canadians banned from travel, fired from public service jobs and, in many provinces, refused entry to places the government deemed non-essential, like restaurants, pools, fitness centres, movie theatres, and museums….