“I’m announcing that we are currently working on a health-care contribution that will be charged to all adults in Quebec who refuse to get vaccinated,” Legault told reporters. And will it be effective?”Fundamentally, he says, Legault’s tax undermines what Canadians like to think of as the basis of their health-care system. Given that the current theory is that one vaccination dose does not provide much protection from the Omicron variant, he questioned how effective Legault’s tax might be in actually curbing COVID cases in the short term. Legault offered his news during a media availability that had been ostensibly arranged to address the resignation of his top public health official, Dr. Horacio Arruda, a day earlier. The premier briefly thanked Arruda and named his replacement, Dr. Luc Boileau, before turning to the issue of the unvaccinated.

Source: thestar January 13, 2022 03:01 UTC