Sturgeon was fired as executive director of medical affairs for Interior Health in November 2021 after refusing to get the vaccine based on his Christian beliefs.
Ravi Kahlon, then-B.C. minister of jobs, economic recovery and innovation, has his provincial COVID-19 vaccine card scanned before a meal at a restaurant in Delta, B.C., Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
He applied for employment insurance benefits but was denied due to being fired for “misconduct,” with appeals to two levels of the Social Security Tribunal also failing, leading him to seek a judicial review in Federal Court in August 2023. The ruling says Sturgeon’s appeal fell “outside the mandate” of the tribunal and he could have challenged Interior Health’s mandatory vaccine police “through other avenues.”
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