Setting a Benchmark for Lifting COVID-19 Mandates ‘Complicated,’ Federal Health Minister Says

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says it’s too “complicated” to set a benchmark of specific metrics towards ending the federal vaccine mandates. On March 21, opposition members of the House of Commons health committee hammered the minister with questions about a timeline, a benchmark, or a set of conditions that would lead to the end of COVID-19 vaccine requirements. “Canadians just want a plan,” Conservative critic Michael Barrett said during the committee meeting. “When we’re provided, as Canadians, with the solution—that was to get vaccinated—Canadians got vaccinated; when they were told to get boosters, they’re getting boosters; they were told to wear masks, they’re wearing masks. All they’re asking for, every single day, is what is it going to take for us to see the mandates end?” The decision, Duclos said, will be based on everything from the number of deaths, infections, and hospitalization rates, to domestic and international epidemiological factors. When …

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