The power to grant religious exemptions from the travel vaccine mandate that the federal government delegated to air carriers was described by Air Canada as “illegal” and “constitutionally flawed” and led to broad discrepancies on how unvaccinated travellers were treated by different airlines, internal documents reveal.
And although Transport Canada left it up to carriers to decide what constitutes a “sincerely held religious belief,” the department monitored data relating to enforcement of its vaccine mandate for travellers and personnel in the transportation sector.
A Transport Canada briefing package titled “Vaccine Mandate – Reporting Snapshot for ADMs [Assistant Deputy Ministers],” with information up to April 19, was made available recently through a filing with the Federal Court….