Mon Sep 26, 2022 – 8:39 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Western University has blocked the attempts of five students who contested the school’s mandatory booster shot for all students and continues to keep its draconian vaccine requirements in place.
This week in a London, Ontario court, Justice Kelly Tranquill ruled against five students who took Western University to court over the school’s rigid vaccine requirements. In her ruling, the judge stated that as a private institution the university has every right to maintain its vaccine requirements despite the fact that they have been lifted throughout the province.
“The Western University Act plainly establishes the university as an independent, autonomous, self-governing institution that is empowered to oversee its administrative and academic affairs,” the Justice said. “The collection of proof of vaccine is how the vaccination policy or mandate is implemented and enforced. This court finds the policy is the product of Western’s broad powers of self-government.”
Western students Simon Hawke, Tiana Gleason, Michael Puzzo, James Donalds and Ashanté Camara, supported by lawyers Lisa D. Bildy and Mark A. Joseph, filed a permanent injunction against Western University on Wednesday over “an improper and unlawful violation of … the
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