EXCLUSIVE: Canadian Military Disregarded Legal Advice in Imposing Vaccine Mandate, Internal Document Shows

Published on January 11, 2024

Canada’s defence chief received legal advice from the Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) in 2021 that there was no evidence supporting a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all members and that imposing one would be “fraught with legal risk,” an internal document obtained by The Epoch Times shows. The document, issued on Feb. 2, 2021, by the JAG’s office, the military’s legal department, also cites guidelines by a physicians’ legal defence organization that warns against obtaining consent to administer vaccines under “compulsion” by an employer or others. The document was prepared for Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre a few months before the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) imposed a vaccine mandate....