Last week, Quebec Premier François Legault announced that his government would impose a “significant” financial penalty for people who choose to remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 for non-medical reasons. Presumably, the latter point was expressly stated so as to ensure the policy is onside with the Canada Health Act. If the underlying goal wasn’t a cynical PR play and was instead to increase vaccination rates, here too Legault was unquestionably successful. O’Toole isn’t wrong when he points out that there are a number of Canadians who will simply refuse the vaccine no matter what. But why would we accept the current number of unvaccinated Canadians as final, especially when we haven’t done nearly enough to try and get more Canadians vaccinated?

Source: thestar January 16, 2022 22:34 UTC