Canadian Crown Corporations Coerced Employees With Fake Vaccine Mandate

The National Telegraph has been granted access to regulatory information from federal employees claiming Canada’s vaccine mandates were implemented in a coercive and abusive manner but lacked the legislation to do so. They claim federal employees were coerced under threat of dismissal to be vaccinated without drafting the required legislation.  

Tens of thousands of unemployed Canadians are currently without an income due to the Trudeau Liberal government’s implementation of a vaccine mandate and subsequent enforcement by provincial premiers like Doug Ford and Jason Kenney.  

However, the Trudeau government which was championed by federal workers’ unions’ endorsements in the 2015, 2019, and 2020 elections has been enabling the coercive policies of executives at crown corporations and agencies targeting unvaccinated employees. Many federal employees complied with the mandate under duress due to the threat of termination. Some employees quit out of protest while others had their employment terminated. The abusive policies and rapid changes within the federal bureaucracy have yet to be challenged by any opposition party. 

Few Canadians know, the mandates causing instability in Canada’s federal workforce were not implemented in accordance with Canadian law. TNT only became aware of this problem with federal workers pointing out the various changes in the federal government’s vaccine mandate to cover for executives of federal corporations and agencies making up their own rules.

This is quite complex for those outside the bureaucracy of government but we will do our best to explain it in simple terms. 

1. The federal Liberal government, through the office of Minister of Labour Seamus O’Regan, implemented a vaccine mandate on federal employees working for organizations under Schedule 1 and 4 of the Finance Act. 

2. Schedule 1 and 4 cover the Core Public Administration. This would include the RCMP, ministerial departments, regulatory bodies, and other organizations involved in the day-to-day functions of the federal government.

3. The policy took effect on October 6, 2021, which required employees of Schedule 1 and Schedule 4 institutions to get vaccinated and “confirm their vaccine status by October 29” or be placed on unpaid leave potentially starting as early as November 15, 2021. 

Here is the problem.

4. According to multiple sources who spoke with The National Telegraph, the mandate was implemented and limited to Schedule 1 and 4 organizations. However, the executives in charge of Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 organizations under the Finance Act, not governed by this mandate, also implemented these mandates even though they had no legal framework or guiding legislation to do so. They had outright lied to their employees claiming they were included in the mandate, which was false.

5. Organizations under Schedule 2 and 3 of the Finance Act are department corporations and crown corporations tied to the federal government, which represents a far larger workforce than Schedule 1 and 4 organizations. This would include organizations like Canada Post, Canada Revenue Agency, Parks Canada, the Canadian Dairy Commission, among many others. 

In reality, there was never a mandate placed on employees of Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 federal corporations because the legislation was limited to Schedule 1 and Schedule 4 organizations. Executives at Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 organizations were not enforcing a real mandate; this allowed them to overlook any occupational health and safety standards that would have been required for a vaccine mandate. 

This means anyone who felt coerced into getting vaccinated under the assumption they were under threat of losing their job was “voluntarily” vaccinated and if they quit in response to the mandate that would be considered a voluntary “resignation.”

It was not until December 7, 2021, that Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan had the mandate details updated to also include employees working for Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 organizations in a reactionary manner. This applied the October 29 deadline retroactively to workers who had not yet complied with the mandate or quit.

Only the Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 employees, who received the vaccine or were put on unpaid leave after December 7, could legally claim they were or are being unfairly coerced.

Schedule 2 and schedule 3 employees should have grounds for legal action against the federal government and the crown corporation/agencies. They were forced to either get vaccinated or be put on unpaid leave while no occupational health and safety standards were put in place. Then they were not given sufficient time to comply with the government mandate because it was applied to them retroactively.

It is evident that Minister O’Regan had the Quickfacts (shown earlier in the article) altered with all the new information on the arbitrary mandate on Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 employees. 

The optics of this scandal might not be evident to the average Canadian but within government bureaucracy and the political class, but the fact that Liberals are trying to cover for the actions of crown corporation executives is extremely telling.  Will this scandal and obvious abuse of Canada’s federal workers by the federal government and enabled by Minister O’Regan strip the sheen of The Trudeau Liberal Brand in the eyes of Canadian labour? 

Only time will tell, but it would be surprising if yet again the Liberal establishment retained the trust that they do from federal workers and labour unions.

Despite not being strictly against the vaccine mandates it would not be surprising if labour unions made a legal challenge to the sideways manner in which the vaccine was implemented and the fact it does not comply with standard occupation health and safety guidelines.