In the midst of another deadly wave of the pandemic — nearly 2,000 Canadians have died of COVID-19 so far in January — the fiercest political debate going on at the federal level concerns the state of the nation's store shelves. An embrace of 'radical individualism'But even if the vaccine mandate for cross-border transport ends up contributing to those problems, Poilievre's simplistic summation can just as easily be turned around. The vaccine mandate for truckers shouldn't be used as a scapegoat for shortages or higher prices attributable to other problems. But vaccine mandates have run into trouble — or have failed to materialize — when governments were unprepared to deal with the consequences. Vaccine mandates might be defended on principle.

Source: CBC News January 26, 2022 09:04 UTC