[Forwarded from COVID-19 Up]
Court Records Show Trudeau's COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Travel Based on Politics, Not Science

???@COVID19Up: Many have known from the beginning that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID-19 policies were too often about political science rather than medical science.

Now, thanks to a lawsuit challenging his demand that anyone traveling by air be vaccinated, there is proof (https://torontosun.com/opinion..../columnists/lilley-c

The lawsuit has made documents public which show health officials were scrambling (https://www.commonsense.news/p..../court-documents-rev to find any justification for COVID-19 vaccine mandates for travel before they came into effect.

The documents also show that the lead doctor who approved the use of COVID-19 vaccines was not consulted on whether such mandates would even be effective.

But it's not the only shocking piece of testimony to come out of the lawsuit.

Aaron McCrorie, the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Safety and Security at Transport Canada, was emailing people at Health Canada in October 2021, just weeks before the travel mandate took effect, looking for anything to support the policy.

“To the extent that updated data exist or that there is clearer evidence of the safety benefit of vaccination on the users or other stakeholders of the transportation system, it would be helpful to assist Transport Canada supporting its measures,” McCrorie wrote.

He followed up again days later saying, “need something fairly soon.” The only response he received, according to the court record, a set of talking points on the general benefits of vaccination.

It’s not like the federal government wasn’t looking at studies to try and find a link between COVID-19 vaccination rates and travel, it’s just that the data didn’t back up their policy.

Dr. Lisa Waddell, an epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Canada was one of the witnesses. She’s also author of a study for PHAC which showed little transmission on airplanes.

Indeed, even the Trudeau government had been publicly opposed to any kind of COVID-19 vaccine mandate for months before their sudden change of stance in August 2021. Before the flip, Trudeau himself had described such policies as “extreme measures that could have real divisive impacts on community and country” and had said this is not how Canada operates in interviews.

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