Wed Jun 15, 2022 – 8:36 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — An advocacy group representing Canada’s major airlines said that while they welcome the news of Tuesday’s “suspension” of a COVID travel jab mandate, dumping the vaccine rule should be made “permanent.”
National Airlines Council of Canada (NACC) interim president and CEO Suzanne Acton-Gervais said in a press release that while the “government’s decision to suspend the national vaccine mandate for air travel and transportation employees is a positive step,” they are not “enough.”
“(Tuesday’s) changes are not enough to resolve the situation at Canada’s airports and the complexity travelers face. Aviation is a global industry that relies on consistency, predictability and harmonization,” Acton-Gervais noted.
“That’s why we are renewing our call to the federal government to take the remaining steps required to fully align Canada’s COVID-19 requirements with those of other countries.”
The NACC is calling on the federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to end “the vaccine mandate for inbound international travelers as more than 100 countries have done to date.”
NACC is also demanding that the federal government make “immediate changes to ArriveCan, including eliminating duplicative health checks conducted by border officers which
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