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Thousands of drivers are prepared to walk in protest of jab mandates in January.
(LifeSiteNews) – Canadian trucking groups have made it clear that issues with supply chains could worsen if the Canadian and U.S. governments follow through with a proposed January 15 deadline for truckers to present vaccine passports in order to cross the border for essential business.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) released a statement about the impending jab mandate, saying, “The government of Canada’s decision to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for domestic federally regulated workers in the trucking industry – including many truck drivers who have been delivering products to Canadians throughout the pandemic – would put an even bigger strain on an already beleaguered supply chain.”
The CTA estimated that more than 20,000 Canadian drivers will decide to leave the Canada-U.S. trucking market if the Canadian government follows through with its planned cross-border vaccination policy.
The Canadian government has until now exempted the trucking industry from the current jab mandate on federally regulated sectors.
The CTA’s estimate of more than 20,000 truck operators leaving the profession due to the mandate is lower than a projection from the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada (PMTC), which is another trucking association that represents private fleet operators.
Based on an anonymous survey of its members, the PMTC said that more than 31,000 cross-border drivers will exit the profession. Based on hypothetical projections, the PMTC wrote that by the January 15th deadline, the number of fully vaccinated drivers could rise to 74 percent.
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