Quebec has decided to toughen the measures against people who do not wish to get vaccinated against Covid-19 by implementing a new tax, the “health contribution,” exclusively for the unvaccinated.
Indeed, the government of the French-speaking province of Canada, hit hard by the Omicron wave, has once again put in place very restrictive measures that will apply in the coming weeks. It is one of the first places to consider a specific tax.
According to François Legault, the Quebec Premier, the 10% of Quebecers who have not yet received a single vaccine dose should not “harm” the 90% who have been vaccinated.
“We are working on a health contribution for all adults who refuse to get vaccinated,” he said on Tuesday, January 11, even describing the unvaccinated as a “financial burden for all Quebecers”.
He nevertheless specifies that this tax would not apply to people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
Moreover, this is not the only restriction in Quebec making headlines in recent days. A Quebec father also temporarily lost custody of his child because he did not wish to get vaccinated.
The court ruled it is not “in the best interest” of the child “to have contact with his father if he is not vaccinated and opposed to health measures”.
Initially, the father was seeking to extend custody of his 12-year-old son during the holiday season. The judge ultimately suspended all his rights until February, unless he decided to get vaccinated.
