Fri Nov 18, 2022 – 3:01 pm EST
TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) – The minister of health of Ontario has rebuked calls for a province wide mask mandate, saying instead masking is a “personal choice.”
“Personal choice is important here,” said Ontario Minister of Health Sylvia Jones while speaking to reporters on Tuesday outside the province’s legislature.
“And we should not be passing judgment on people who wear a mask or not wear a mask,” she stressed, while herself wearing a mask.
During the daily legislative setting, Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford and most of his MPPs were maskless, while all the opposition MPPs from the left-wing Liberal Party and New Democratic Party (NDP) wore masks.
In her statement, Jones added that everyone should make “individual choices” with respect to masks, recommending people “take into consideration the size of the building, the size of the room.”
For weeks, Liberal and NDP MPPs have been calling for the reinstatement of a province-wide mask mandate, which the Ford government imposed on the population throughout most of the COVID crisis.
Reacting to the resurgence of mask mandates and recommendations taking place in many parts of the world, Dr. Joseph Mercola noted, “As predicted,
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