Are mandatory vaccine passports impeding our Charter rights?
In recent weeks, as demands for a vaccine passport grow around the world, politicians are citing our rights to life, liberty and security as a reason to allow portions of our population to not be vaccinated. They say making vaccines mandatory will erode our rights, and nothing, not even a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, is worth that. We all have rights, but we also have a duty to keep each other safe. How do we do that?
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Show Notes
In recent weeks, as demands for a vaccine passport grow around the world, politicians are citing our rights to life, liberty and security as a reason to allow portions of our population to not be vaccinated. They say making vaccines mandatory will erode our rights, and nothing, not even a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, is worth that.
We all have rights, but we also have a duty to keep each other safe. How do we do that?
Guest: Emmett Macfarlane
Guest-host: Fatima Syed
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