NDP leader Andrea Horwath has reversed herself on the need for Ontario school teachers to get vaccinated. She took a lot of heat from her own members (see below) for saying teachers could refuse as a matter of their human rights. Of course, there’s that other little rights matter called kids getting sick and dying. It’s clouded in the murk of history but some recall 1950s kids getting jabbed for the deadly and crippling curse of polio without mom and dad even being asked. Meanwhile, the Ontario government has all but said teachers must be vaccinated but not quite. Oddly, teachers’ unions are in a tizzy about it. Calm down. Kids unvaccinated for childhood diseases must leave class. Teachers have the same right to leave. It’s called unemployment.
I fully support mandatory vaccination of health care and education workers, based on science and public health. I should have made that position clearer, much earlier.
I made a mistake yesterday raising charter rights. I was wrong.
½ #onpoli pic.twitter.com/LFV0bTxKPF— Andrea Horwath (@AndreaHorwath) August 5, 2021
NDP MP @CharlieAngusNDP has deleted his tweet calling Andrea Horwath's anti-mandatory vaccine stance "idiocy" and saying he wrote to the provincial party asking them to walk it back. pic.twitter.com/IkFi9VPzrN
— Allison Smith (@QueensParkToday) August 5, 2021
