Thu Aug 4, 2022 – 7:11 pm EDT
You’re invited! Join LifeSite in celebrating 25 years of pro-life and pro-family reporting at our anniversary Gala August 17th in Naples, Florida. Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased by clicking here.
(LifeSiteNews) – Ontario arbitrator Mark Wright ruled that post-secondary institutions in Ontario can continue to mandate vaccines even when they are not required by public health.
The decision, released July 22, came as a result of a challenge from the United Food and Commercial Workers union that represented two food-services employees of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
The university has had a jab mandate in effect for all students and staff since last September, and enforcement has continued by administration even as public health in the region said mandates were no longer necessary.
Wright opined that the school was “perfectly entitled” to deny the vaccine-free to attend or work at the publicly subsidized university.
Wright wrote that the policy was “reasonable” because of the “extraordinary threat to health and safety posed by the COVID-19 in all its variant forms … ”
According to recent research from England, it is believed that COVID is “less deadly than
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
The views expressed in this news alert by the author do not directly represent that of The Christian Journal or its editors