Defence chief to review Canadian Armed Forces COVID-19 vaccine mandate
More than 800 troops still in uniform have been issued warnings, Lamirande said, while formal reviews have been launched against 463 members who continue to defy the vaccination order after other remedial measures have been exhausted.As for the more than 1,300 Armed Forces members who applied for an exemption from the requirement for medical or religious reasons, only 157 have had their requests approved.
Millar said he was supposed to appear in Federal Court on behalf of one client this week to argue for an injunction against the mandate until military officials asked for a delay while the Armed Forces, in his words, “gets its policy together.
At the same time, he noted that the military is facing a severe personnel shortage and that not all missions and operations require the same level of protection and safeguards.“The only real option that the Canadian Forces has right now, and the leadership has right now, is to acknowledge the fact that it can’t be a one-size-fits-all,” said Thibault, who is now chair of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute.
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