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OTTAWA, Ontario, June 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc confirmed that the federal government is working with Canadian provinces on a type of “digital” proof of “vaccination” for citizens to use for international travel.
“The urgency of coming up with a secure, reliable, probably digital proof of vaccination is something that we’re working on collaboratively with provinces,” LeBlanc told reporters on Tuesday. “If there’s a phased adjustment of border measures in July or later in August or so on, there may be a transitional measure. But we’ll have more to say about that in the coming weeks.”
In Canada, provinces have jurisdiction on all health matters, which would include issuing any type of proof of one’s vaccination status.
LeBlanc said the federal government intends to “respect provincial jurisdiction around the health care data of citizens,” noting that “in all likelihood” international travel will “require some reliable national proof of vaccination.”
He also said that while the federal government is working with provincial governments on “vaccination proof” certificates for global travel, when it comes to the local level, the federal government is leaving that to the
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