Like it or not, COVID-19 vaccine mandates are coming to Canada. Michelle Quick, 33, gets her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a one-day pop-up clinic in the Eaton Centre shopping mall in Toronto on July 27. Quebec took the bold first step of announcing this week that vaccine passports for non-essential services , like bars, restaurants, gyms and festivals, would be mandated on Sept. 1 in an effort to avoid reintroducing lockdown measures. Ottawa working out details of vaccine passport 1:36 The federal government says it is working on the details of a COVID-19 vaccine passport that can be used for international travel, which it hopes will be available by the fall. He doesn't think vaccine passports are the "be all and end all" in the push to get people vaccinated.

Source: CBC News August 14, 2021 08:00 UTC