Quebec will discuss Monday evening with Public Health a “calendar” in order to completely withdraw the vaccine passport.
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The Prime Minister, François Legault, now says he wants to remove it “as soon as possible”, provided that he obtains the approval of his scientists to “not take uncalculated risks with the situation in hospitals”.
The position of the Legault government has evolved rapidly regarding the vaccine passport. On February 1, the Minister of the Economy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, still pleaded for his enlargement.
Then, the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, affirmed last Wednesday that the vaccine passport was “here to stay” before finally mentioning on Friday the possibility of suspending it until the next wave.
Then the Ontario government announced on Monday that it was completely withdrawing this measure as of March 1.
Bringing Quebecers together
“It’s time to bring Quebecers together, it’s not the time to divide them, we tabled a deconfinement plan last week, we are also looking to possibly withdraw the vaccine passport,” commented the Prime Minister on Monday. , Francois Legault.
But that has nothing to do with the demonstrations in Ottawa and at border crossings in several places across the country, where participants are calling for the lifting of sanitary measures, he added.
“There are a lot of Quebecers who are fed up with the measures, there are some who contest, and we have the right in Quebec to demonstrate, to say that we do not agree with some, but to make a siege , to prevent workers from going to work, that is unacceptable,” reiterated the CAQ leader.
On Saturday, “Le Journal de Québec” reported that the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, might announce on Tuesday that the vaccine passport would no longer be compulsory in big box stores, then a week later in the surfaces of the SAQ and of the SQDC.