Mandatory vaccination bill DEFEATED in New Brunswick
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Mark Crispin Miller
Jun 19, 2020, 2:12:39 PM6/19/20
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From Meryl Nass:
This was the first battle state in Canada, and the people won.
Bob Sears, James Lyons-Weiler and I had given testimony on this bill in Frederickton
last August. My testimony then:
It is of interest that Covid-19 did not have the desired effect of frightening people into
voting for mandatory vaccination.
New Brunswick
Mandatory vaccination bill defeated 22-20
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Bill sought to remove religious, philosophical exemptions for schoolchildren
Education Minister Dominic Cardy said the goal of the bill was to immunize enough children to create herd immunity so that the small number of children who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons would still be protected from an outbreak. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
Proposed legislation to strengthen mandatory-vaccination rules for schoolchildren in New Brunswick has been defeated in the provincial legislature.
Education Minister Dominic Cardy's bill, to eliminate religious and philosophical exemptions from the requirement for vaccinations, was defeated 22-20 in a free vote among all four parties in the legislature.
The two largest parties split on the issue, with six Progressive Conservative MLAs and 12 Liberals voting against it.
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