Mon Mar 14, 2022 – 3:20 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian Conservative Party (CPC) MP has backed an official House of Commons petition demanding the Canadian federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “abolish” a rule which bans the vaccine-free from traveling by air.
“We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Minister of Transport to abolish the domestic vaccine passport requirement for Canadian citizens and permanent residents taking domestic flights in a safe and orderly manner,” reads the petition sponsored by Alberta CPC MP Tom Kmiec.
“The restriction imposed on Canadians taking domestic flights, trains and ferries is an unreasonable infringement of their rights and freedoms that cannot be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”
The petition was initiated by Lydia Henry from Mississauga, Ontario, and was launched on March 10. It currently has close to 8,000 signatures and closes on April 10.
The petition states examples from the travel industry as proof that a vaccine passport for domestic air travel is not backed up by logical reasoning.
“According to Westjet’s first Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tammy McKnight, as of April 23, 2021, there had been no known case
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