Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says he believes provinces and territories should consider making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all Canadians at some point. “What we see now is that our health care system in Canada is fragile. Our people are tired, and the only way that we know to get through COVID-19, this variant, and any future variant, is through vaccination,” Duclos said in a press conference on Jan. 7. “PPE, physical distancing, test, rapid test, PCR test, these are all very important tools, but what will make us move through this crisis and end it, is vaccination.” The health minister, citing that half of the hospitalizations in Quebec came from the unvaccinated, said that created “a burden on health care workers, a burden on society—which is very difficult to bear and, for many people, difficult to understand.” Duclos said he is “signalling this as a conversation,” which he believes the …