A judge has ordered special costs against marine pilots fighting their suspensions for refusing to comply with a COVID\u002D19 vaccine mandate.
On Dec. 21, 2021, counsel for the petitioners sent a letter to the company making a number of claims including that COVID vaccines were experimental and unsafe, and that the virus posed no serious health risk to 99.7 per cent of Canadians. The petition was filed in July 2022 seeking a declaration that certain actions of the company and the manner in which affairs of the company had been conducted was oppressive or unfairly prejudicial.
The respondent company filed a response arguing that the petition was defective and unviable for a number of reasons, and claimed that the petitioners were seeking to rely on hearsay evidence and purporting to give irrelevant, inadmissible and discredited opinion evidence regarding the safety of vaccines.
At the court hearing in February, the petitioners announced that they were discontinuing the case, a move that was challenged by the respondent, which wanted to have the claims heard and dismissed by the judge.
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