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(LifeSiteNews) – One of Canada’s largest rail companies was not able to fully go along with a federal COVID vaccine mandate while keeping its trains running safely, recently disclosed records show.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, labour board records reveal that for Canadian Pacific Railway to be in full compliance with a COVID vaccine mandate, it would have meant placing its “critical operations of the railroad at risk.”
Tom Hodges, a federal labour arbitrator, wrote that to be “fully compliant with the Ministerial Order” the company had to undertake “significant hiring efforts along with the reallocation and redistribution of resources since the placement of all non-compliant employees on a leave of absence effective January 24 would have placed the critical operations of the railroad at risk.”
As a result, Hodges said that “a limited number of non-compliant employees were allowed to continue active employment in order to ensure the safe and uninterrupted operations of the railroad.”
The federal
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