Fri Jun 3, 2022 – 10:51 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Despite calls from some Members of Parliament (MPs) within Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, Canada’s leader says he won’t lift travel COVID jab mandates yet while the country is still in a “pandemic.”
In speaking to reporters Wednesday, Trudeau claimed his reasoning is that the COVID travel jab mandate as well as other border measures are ”anchored in science.”
“The reality is, as much as people would like to pretend we’re not, we’re still in a pandemic. There are Canadians who die every single day because of COVID-19 in our hospitals,” Trudeau said.
He then said, despite the fact it is still technically not yet summer, that Canada is “at risk” from possible “new variants” as “fall approaches.”
Trudeau then noted, “I know people are eager to get back to things we love, but what will also further damage our tourism industry is if we get another wave.”
On Wednesday, top leaders from Canada’s travel and tourism industry demanded that Trudeau’s “unscientific and unnecessary COVID policies,” including jab mandates, be gone by June 15.
This came after the Trudeau government said Tuesday that its travel COVID jab
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