Mon Apr 4, 2022 – 9:27 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet polled Canadians before the 2021 election to determine public opinion on vaccine mandates.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the poll found that Liberals highly favored heavy-handed vaccine mandate measures. The timeline of the poll, which finalized its results days before the election was announced, correlates with Trudeau ramping up anti-vaccine sentiment and strong support for mandates.
“Regionally, there were a few notable differences,” said a pollsters’ report Continuous Qualitative Data Collection of Canadians’ Views. “While the group in Atlantic Canada indicated unanimous support for requiring proof of vaccination for domestic flights, the Alberta and Saskatchewan group was unanimous in opposing this idea.”
“When asked if they had privacy concerns about this issue, participants from Atlantic Canada were unconcerned while those located in Alberta and Saskatchewan felt disclosure of vaccination status should be a personal decision,” the report added.
Alberta and Saskatchewan have long been conservative strongholds in Canada, whereas Atlantic Canada has been largely Liberal for decades, suggesting a strong correlation between political party affiliation and feelings regarding mandatory vaccination.
The people opposed to mandates “saw [them] as overreach on the
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