Professor Bill Bogart authored an opinion piece published in iPolitics digital newspaper about the perils of enforcing vaccine mandates. "Whether legislation requiring individuals to be inoculated would survive scrutiny under The Charter of Rights and Freedoms raises concerns that I leave to constitutional experts," he writes. "Forcing people to undergo medical treatment is a drastic measure with few, if any, precedents."
"Assuming such legislation is judged valid, how would it be enforced? Some percentage of the unvaccinated would probably obey the law and get the jab, however reluctantly. But what to do about the non-compliant?"
The case for vaccination is irrefutable, he writes. Professor Bogart suggests we use a range of means to encourage more people to get the jab.
"But we must think long and hard before acceding to cries of 'Make them take it!' We need to take care, lest we unwittingly hand a victory to those we seek to defeat. Forced inoculations could take a very bad situation and make it even worse."