The non-binding decision made by a Canadian military tribunal could result in a flood of new lawsuits against the federal government and reopen a divisive debate over vaccine mandates, a legal expert says.
That challenge won’t hold up. There is ample precedent for mandatory vaccination (excepting medical exemptions)
Both in Canada and the US.
You sign you get stabbed.
Yeah, I think you’re probably right. I don’t think this is anything new and there were exemptions allowed.
yeah, any commander(whatever higher up role has the authority to issue such order) that thinks it’s okay and then leads to mass infection like US Navy would lost their job and if in active war probably military court trials. Imaging losing combat capability during your mission cause you want to accommodate people that don’t want to get vaccinated.
The article goes into a good amount of detail and information from both sides without arguing/favouring one. It focuses on the legal side rather than the vaccines themselves, which is nice.
All that said, I can’t see them winning this one. In the article they talk about the provision in the NDA (sec 126) which makes it an offense to refuse a vaccination:
Every person who, on receiving an order to submit to inoculation, re-inoculation, vaccination, re-vaccination, other immunization procedures, immunity tests, blood examination or treatment against any infectious disease, wilfully and without reasonable excuse disobeys that order is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to imprisonment for less than two years or to less punishment.
This pretty clearly defines that it is an offense, so unless the lawsuit is able to successfully argue that this section of the NDA is a violation, they’re sunk. Additionally, the fact that the CAF was able and willing to accommodate those who were ‘unable’ to get the vaccine and chose only to attack those who were ‘unwilling’ to is another mark against the lawsuit.
That last point should be covered by the “without reasonable excuse” part of the same clause you quoted.
without reasonable excuse
When did “Trump made my sniveling fear of icky needles into a brave political stance” become reasonable OR an excuse?
Never was.
No, it’s a defense for the CAF as to why they accommodated those who were unable to take the vaccine but not those who were unwilling.
