Fri Sep 17, 2021 – 5:11 am EDT
CALGARY, Alberta (Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms) – The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms today responded to the Alberta government’s new restrictions on human rights and civil liberties by way of imposing vaccine passports on Albertans. New violations of Charter rights and freedoms were announced by Premier Kenney and Health Minister Tyler Shandro on September 15, including direct and deliberate discrimination against Albertans who have chosen not to take a COVID vaccine.
The Alberta government claims the mandatory vaccination requirements are necessary to “prevent our health system from being overwhelmed”. This is being imposed at the same time as Alberta Health Services is set to prohibit thousands of health professionals from working if they have not been vaccinated.
“The Alberta government has had 18 months to increase hospital bed and ICU capacity, and could have done so at a fraction of the cost of the economic harm that lockdowns have inflicted on our economy, not to mention the tens of billions in new debt,” states lawyer John Carpay, President of the Justice Centre.
The Alberta government announced in April 2020 that it could increase ICU spaces to over 1,000. Dire warnings about hospital overcrowding have not materialized, according to
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