vancouversun The judge said only workers with no access to patients or colleagues made case for vaccine exemption
The orders, issued in October 2023, extended a previous order requiring COVID vaccinations by workers in health-care settings and long-term care homes.
The health-care workers sought to dismiss the orders, arguing their continuation “was an unreasonable exercise” of the powers of the health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry.
They argued the orders caused “ongoing hardship and harm” to workers who had lost their jobs and to the health-care system from the loss of personnel. About 1,800 health-care workers were fired for refusing to get vaccinated.
The petitions challenged the reasonableness of the orders on four grounds.
• That, by late 2023, COVID was no longer an immediate and significant risk to public health and the health officer’s emergency powers no longer applied.
• That there was no medical evidence that unvaccinated health-care workers posed a greater risk to vulnerable patients than vaccinated workers.
• That it was unconstitutional to force the workers to choose between their fundamental and personal beliefs about vaccination and keeping their jobs, because it infringed on rights to freedom of conscience and religion in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms…
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