Wed Nov 3, 2021 – 8:57 pm EDT
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that his conservative government will not mandate the experimental COVID-19 vaccines for workers in the province’s healthcare sector.
In a statement issued this afternoon, Ford stood in defense of the individual autonomy of healthcare workers in his province by announcing that he will not mandate they receive the jab to keep their jobs despite pleas from the Ontario COVID-19 Advisory Science Table to do so.
“This is a complex issue. But when the impact of the potential departure of tens of thousands of health care workers is weighed against the small number of outbreaks that are currently active in Ontario’s hospitals, I am not prepared to jeopardize the delivery of care to millions of Ontarians,” Ford said Wednesday.
Although Ford announced that he will not mandate the vaccine for all healthcare workers at the provincial level, he did maintain his previous stance that he will allow individual hospitals and places that offer healthcare services to mandate the shot for their workers if they want.
“Having looked at the evidence, our government has decided to maintain its flexible approach by leaving human resourcing decisions up to individual hospitals,” the politician stated. “The experience in other Canadian jurisdictions tells us that implementing a province-wide
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