A former City of Greater Sudbury employee is part of a $126M class-action lawsuit against dozens of Ontario municipalities that imposed vaccine mandates
Confident they were right to deploy a vaccine mandate earlier in the pandemic, City of Greater Sudbury staff are prepared to join others by defending themselves in a class-action lawsuit.
“While ‘exemptions’ to these ‘mandatory vaccine mandates’ exist, in theory, all of the Plaintiffs who sought an exemption were arbitrarily denied without reasons,” according to the statement of claim. “The Plaintiffs further state that there is no obligation to seek any exemption before refusing the vaccines.”
As of this week, there have been 4.6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada since the pandemic began, and 51,447 deaths. The lawsuit seeks $550,000 in compensation for each of its plaintiffs, which would total $126 million. One person received an exemption on human rights-related religious grounds. The city followed legal advice in their decisions to deny or grant exemptions, Fowke said.The city’s executive leadership team looked at the vaccine mandate again last month, and decided it’d be best to keep it in place due to the COVID-19 virus still being out there.
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