Organizations that impose COVID-19 mandates must also be responsible for the harms those mandates could potentially cause and cannot be absolved by claiming they were following orders from Health Canada, says ethicist Dr. Julie Ponesse. Ponesse was fired from Ontario’s Huron University College in September after refusing to comply with the its mandatory COVID-19 vaccine mandate. She told The Epoch Times that she found the decision “very problematic” because the university did not do its due diligence to explore whether the public health mandate is ethically justified. “This is really a very complicated issue because it gets to the heart of what rights and freedoms we really have in a democracy,” she said. Ponesse said the issue raises questions about what rights and responsibilities organizations have when following orders from federal authorities. “I don’t think the university gets to say, ‘Well, we’re imposing it just because Health Canada says we …