Ontario Liberals vow to make COVID jab ‘compulsory’ for public schools
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The party leader says compulsory COVID injections for school children will be the ‘best way to get back to normal.’
(LifeSiteNews) — Ontario Liberal leader Steven Del Duca said last week that if he becomes premier his government will add “COVID-19 vaccines to the compulsory immunization schedule for all children attending public schools in Ontario.”
“The Doug Ford Conservatives’ approach to the pandemic was chaotic and confusing. Their hyper-political approach undermined confidence in vaccines and prolonged lockdowns and suffering — particularly for our kids,” Del Duca said at Ottawa’s Celebration Park on Saturday ahead of the June 2 provincial election.
“The best way to get back to normal is to make classrooms safer. Ontario Liberals will do just that by expanding the list of universal vaccines to include the COVID-19 vaccine and requiring all frontline education workers to be vaccinated,” the politician added.
Continuing on, Del Duca alleged that Premier Doug Ford and his Conservative Party “dismantled the infrastructure we need to boost vaccine uptake on a voluntary basis” and his government will “make a different choice” by “partnering with parents, educators, and healthcare professionals to positively promote vaccination as the best available tool to keep kids safe.”
Despite Del Duca’s disapproval of Ford’s COVID approach, the Ford government locked down public schools more than any other jurisdiction in North America, drawing massive criticism from his own conservative base.
Ford also imposed a province-wide mask mandate and vaccine passport system, and even booted one of his own MPPs, Roman Baber, from caucus for voicing opposition to Ford’s harsh lockdown policies and other so-called COVID measures.
As of now, the Immunization of School Pupils Act from 1990 requires inoculations against nine different diseases, including tetanus, polio, measles, mumps and rubella among others.