Manitoba Cabinet Minister to be excluded from caucus if not vaccinated by December 15: Prime Minister – Winnipeg

Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said the province’s infrastructure minister would lose his job if he wasn’t vaccinated in the next two weeks.

Ron Schuler is the only Manitoba MLA not to disclose his immunization status.

Stefanson said on Wednesday she expects all members of the caucus and the cabinet to be fully vaccinated by December 15.

“Prime Minister Stefanson hopes all members of the cabinet and caucus will be fully immunized in time for the new requirements to access the Manitoba Legislature… This includes the Minister of Grassroots. Infrastructure.” A spokesman from Stefanson’s office said in a statement.

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If Schuler had not been vaccinated by then, Stefanson said he would have been removed from the caucus and cabinet.

Stefanson previously set December 15 as the start date for new requirements that would see only fully vaccinated people be allowed access to the Legislature.

Given the timeline, Schuler wouldn’t have had time to begin his more than 45-day journey to be fully immunized with the two-dose vaccine, if he hadn’t been given at least one shot.

Stefanson said the December 15 deadline could be moved up if the right systems were put in place.

–With files from Brittany Greenslade and Skylar Peters

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