Were vaccine certificates a threat to liberty or the only option? Study considers if they should ever be used again
A new Canadian paper offers conditions under which vaccine certificates should and should not be considered in future pandemic scenarios
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They were contentious, unprecedented and among the policies that drove long-haul truckers from across Canada to overtake Ottawa’s downtown core for nearly a month.
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Now a new paper explores under what conditions vaccine certificates should, or shouldn’t ever, be considered again.
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“If you look at some of the language used even during the convoy, it was ethics language. It was informed consent; it was around freedom and liberty and coercion,” said co-author Maxwell Smith, director of Western University’s Centre for Bioethics.
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