Wed Aug 31, 2022 – 4:41 pm EDT
HIGH RIVER, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Alberta Premier leadership candidate Danielle Smith said that as leader of the province she will make it “illegal” for post-secondary institutions to shut out students who choose “not to be vaccinated.”
“It was wrong for Alberta to deny access and sanction post-secondary students for choosing not to be vaccinated. This decision damaged the education and mental health of thousands of Alberta’s best and brightest. It can’t happen again,” Smith wrote Monday on Twitter.
“As Premier, I will make it illegal for post-secondary institutions to deny students access or otherwise sanction them based on their vaccination status.”
Smith also said that she would mandate it so that there never again would be the “further shutting down of in-person classes at our post-secondary institutions.”
She then wrote that the protection of our “students’ rights to pursue their education” as well as “respect for their bodily autonomy” is “non-negotiable.”
Like all provinces in Canada, during the height of COVID, the Alberta government shut down all post-secondary institutions and schools for in-person learning. Some Alberta colleges, including both the University of Calgary and University of Alberta (Edmonton),
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