OTTAWA —
Transportation trade associations say the federal authorities’s improvement of a nationwide vaccine passport shall be important for airways to hold out a vaccine mandate for air travellers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced right this moment that proof of vaccination shall be necessary for folks travelling by air and rail by the tip of October.
The federal government says travellers will nonetheless be allowed to board with a unfavorable COVID-19 check fairly than proof of vaccination till the tip of November.
At that time, Trudeau stated a vaccination shall be required to journey besides in extraordinarily restricted instances the place a medical exemption is granted.
The Nationwide Airways Council of Canada stated it has supported a vaccine mandate for travellers for the reason that coverage was first introduced in August, however stated a standardized proof-of-vaccination system throughout the nation must be developed rapidly.
The federal authorities stated it’s persevering with to work with provinces and territories to develop a pan-Canadian proof of vaccination system, however didn’t give an replace on when it is anticipated to be full.
The Canadian Airports Council additionally welcomed the coverage, however stated it nonetheless has extra questions than solutions round implementation.
“We’ve no perception on how the vaccine mandate for travellers will really work,” stated CAC President Daniel-Robert Gooch in an announcement, questioning whether or not use of the federal authorities’s current app shall be required to indicate proof of vaccination, or whether or not airways shall be requested to confirm papers.
“These are important components to grasp, because it impacts the movement of travellers at airports and the type of expertise our absolutely vaccinated travellers can have in air journey at a time when we have to rebuild traveller confidence and rebuild our journey and tourism companies.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Sept 6, 2021.
