More than 1,300 members of the Canadian Armed Forces requested exemptions for medical or religious reasons. Nearly 1,000 have been denied
The Canadian military says nearly 1,000 members have been denied exemptions from the military’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
Allen says only 158 of those requests have been approved, while about the same number of requests are still being assessed. The Defence Department reports more than 98 per cent of Canadian troops have been vaccinated, but hundreds of others did not get their shots.
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