Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos defended his government’s vaccination push Friday as a convoy of protesters opposed to vaccine mandates prepares to descend on Ottawa this weekend.
“The enemy is not vaccination. The enemy is COVID-19 and the best tool to fight this enemy is to be vaccinated,” he said during a public health briefing Friday morning.
“We understand now there is frustration around COVID-19, but we also know that the only way to exit COVID-19 is to get vaccinated.”
The protest was billed initially as a demonstration by Canadian truck drivers against new vaccination rules in their industry — but those
