Fri Jan 14, 2022 – 11:42 am EST
CALGARY (LifeSiteNews) – Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney has condemned a proposal by the province of Quebec to tax unvaccinated residents.
During a COVID-19 update on Thursday afternoon, Kenney said “the implication of this policy is that low-income unvaccinated people would be denied care, which is, I think, inhumane and unethical and certainly un-Canadian.”
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“I am very concerned about the announcement that the government of Quebec contends in principle to pursue,” he said.
The Alberta Premier also raised the spectre of other kinds of health discrimination, saying: “It makes no sense to me, and if we were going to go down that road, then … anybody [who] is overweight, do we put them on a weigh scale and determine, based on their weight, that they have to pay extra to access the healthcare system?”
He also expressed his concern about the constitutional and legal concerns with taxing anyone a special health tax while operating under a universal health system. The Canada Health
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