‘Put your own health at risk, but my health? No’: MPs, Senators calling on all colleagues to be fully vaxxed for Parliament’s return next month

Liberal MP-elect John McKay says he should have the 'absolute right' to expect that his colleagues in Parliament have done everything they can possibly do to make sure that they are not transmitting COVID-19.

Canadian Senators Group Leader Scott Tannas, left, Independent Senator Rosa Galvez, and NDP MP-elect Don Davies. Mr. Davies says he believes 'as political leaders, we should be applying the same rules to ourselves that we expected federal civil servants to follow.' Photographs courtesy of the Senate of Canada, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

October 15, 2021

With Parliament set to return five weeks from now, some Senators and MPs say all Parliamentarians should be fully vaccinated before returning to in-person sittings in both the House and the Senate, after many months of hybrid sittings throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. NDP MP Don Davies (Vancouver K...

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