Wed Jan 19, 2022 – 5:22 pm EST
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian trucking companies are reporting driver shortages as a direct result of a federal government COVID jab mandate for all haulers crossing the border.
Robert Penner, who is the president and CEO of Winnipeg-based Bison Transport, one of Canada’s largest trucking firms, said his company alone has already lost nearly 10 percent of its cross-border drivers due to the trucker jab mandate, which went into effect on January 15.
Penner noted “without question” the COVID jab mandate for truckers has created “challenges for our industry,” noting that it will “drive up costs on all goods originating from or destined to the United States,” as reported in the Globe & Mail.
Mark Millian, the president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada, had warned the federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of possible shortages of goods moving across the border before the mandate took place.
“We already have a fractured supply chain,” Millian said, as reported in the Globe & Mail, noting that if the supply chain is damaged, “we’re going to see a shortage” of the supplies Canadians need for their “own health and safety.”
Late last week, the Trudeau government reinstated a requirement that all truckers crossing the border be “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 by January 15.
The mandate came as a surprise to many
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Official Street Preachers or its editors