A group of more than 100 WestJet staffers are taking legal action against their airline and the Canadian government for the mandatory vaccine policies forced on industry workers. “Collaborating with airlines and other corporate stakeholders, the federal government implemented punitive and divisive COVID vaccination mandates, creating a two-tier society stoked by fear, division, and anger,” said the group in a statement.
“Our objection lies in the coercion, discipline, and denial of informed consent used to achieve the government’s goals of mass vaccination. Achieving informed consent under such a heinous act of forced compliance is not only unethical and unconstitutional, it is un-Canadian.”
The group is working with civil liberties lawyer Leighton Grey, of Grey Wowk Spencer LLP, and said it chose Grey due to his office supporting “similar lawsuits filed against other large corporations and the government” and said those cases have “shown promising results” so far.