HAMILTON, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – A school board in Ontario will refrain from firing employees for not taking the COVID-19 jab, while another has extended its deadline.
Ontario’s Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) removed their vaccine policy that required all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be terminated. Meanwhile, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has extended their jab policy’s deadline for another month.
On Tuesday, HWDSB spokesman Shawn McKillop announced that the board has removed the requirement that all employees be “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 by November 30, while the TDSB postponed their mandate’s deadline until the end of November.
According to McKillop, the decision was made as the “result of the advice from experts and employee management groups.” Instead of forcing all employees to receive the experimental COVID-19 injections, those who choose to remain unjabbed “will have to undergo rapid testing twice a week.”
Unlike the HWDSB, which chose to remove their policy outright, the TDSB, Ontario’s largest school board, announced they are simply postponing their vaccine mandate deadline from November 1 to November 30, due to an influx of exemption requests.
“This decision was based on feedback from system leaders, a longer than anticipated time required to review a significant number of requests for exemptions, and in order to ensure continuity in students’ learning and care and important business processes,” wrote the TDSB.
According to the Globe and Mail, 85 percent of TDSB staff are “fully vaccinated” whereas the HWDSB boasts a 93 percent vaccination rate.
The province of Ontario has not mandated the abortion-tainted and experimental COVID-19 so-called vaccines for education workers but has allowed and encouraged school boards to do so on their own.
Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce told the public in a press briefing on Tuesday that the reason for not implementing a sweeping mandate province-wide is because doing so could mean “terminating 50,000 workers in the education space.”
“I think we have to be coupled by realism and ensure that any staff member who enters our school has a double test, a negative antigen test, to ensure they are safe, to ensure our schools could be staffed, and these kids can continue to go to school every day,” the minister stated.
Regarding vaccine mandates and compulsory COVID-19 testing, Canadian constitutional rights lawyer Rocco Galati warns that both practices are “illegal.”
In an August press conference, Galati mentioned that the “Genetic Non-discrimination Act” found in the Criminal Code of Canada states that forcing a person to take a “genetic test” for “purposes such as the prediction of disease or vertical transmission risks, or monitoring, diagnosis or prognosis” is illegal in Canada.
The Act also forbids both forcing someone to disclose the results of a test and discriminating against someone for refusing to undergo a test.
“It is a criminal offence punishable by fine, and a maximum of five years in jail, for anyone to conduct a DNA or RNA test to determine whether or not, that person is susceptible to transmitting a disease,” stated Galati.
“Well, isn’t that the PCR test? Isn’t it all the tests they’re conducting for COVID?”
Galati, who is leading a lawsuit against the Government of Canada and various public health officials over their COVID-19 measures, also mentions that per Section 2, Section 7, and Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, all citizens are free to reject a vaccination or any other medical treatment without discrimination.
“I have a constitutional right to not have a medical treatment forced on me,” said Galati.
“This [mandatory vaccination] is depraved, this is illegal, this is criminal, this is unconstitutional.”