It is nonsense to complain, as many unvaccinated people do, about “the lack of effectiveness of unproven vaccines”.
The most recent provincial statistics suggest 12.8 per cent of the population over five years of age remains unvaccinated, yet that cohort accounts for 29 per cent of hospitalizations from COVID and 45 per cent of those in intensive care. Legault said the unvaccinated are “clogging up our hospitals…and it’s not up to all Quebecers to pay for that.” I am triple vaccinated, a supporter of vaccine passports and a firm believer in John Stuart Mill’s harm principle – that your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.īut this is still a country, to quote our prime minister, where a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. Admittedly, Legault has not exactly been a stickler about the constitutionality of his legislation of late but this one looks particularly vulnerable to challenge.įirst, a disclaimer. It is a terrible public policy and may not even be legal. The announcement by Quebec Premier François Legault that his government will impose a “health contribution” on the unvaccinated is merely the latest nibble at freedoms we used to take for granted. Is anyone else getting uncomfortable with draconian government overreach, supposedly for our own good, that tends to produce sub-optimal outcomes? Luc Boileau, interim Quebec Director of Public Health and Quebec Premier Francois Legault during a news conference in Montreal, Tuesday, Jan.