Thu Jun 1, 2023 – 9:28 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne ruled that federal government COVID dictates were justifiable and “necessary,” and has thrown out all complaints made against vaccine and quarantine mandates.
In seven separate reports recently tabled in Parliament concerning COVID-era laws, as per Blacklock’s Reporter, Dufresne wrote that the “urgency of limiting the spread of the virus was understandably a significant challenge for government and public health authorities.”
He added that the COVID crisis was a “rapidly evolving situation that required swift and effective responses to address extraordinary public health needs,” and thus all rules put in place by Trudeau’s cabinet were reasonable under the Privacy Act.
Dufresne noted that his investigation “considered whether all aspects of the policy were necessary and proportional.”
Many of the complaints launched against the government were regarding Trudeau’s COVID travel mandate, which banned the vaccine free from flying.
In October 2021, Trudeau announced unprecedented COVID-19 jab mandates for all federal workers and those in the transportation sector and said the unvaccinated will no longer be able to travel by air, boat, or train, both domestically and internationally. This rule went into effect on December 1, 2021.
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