Filing a complain about vax passports to the BC Human Rights Commission

The BC Human Rights Commission office has been inundated by phone calls against our government’s announcement on Aug 23rd (re: vax passports to enter businesses). The HR Commission is asking that if you have a complaint about this, please do so in writing via email or mail

Below is a template letter you can use/follow or customize it to your liking. Please email them this week to let them know how we really feel about it and that we’d like to file a complaint.

send email to ALL of these addresses:

• Email: BC*******************@go*.ca
• Email: in**@bc***********.ca
• cc: John Horgan – pr*****@go*.ca
• cc: Adrian Dix – hl***********@go*.ca
• cc: Bonnie Henry – bo**********@go*.ca

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Dear Human Rights Commissioner, OCT 03, 2021

I am writing to respectfully request your assistance in addressing a government policy that is threatening the human rights of British Columbians, and Canadians. 

On August 23, the government announced their plans for vaccine passports that restrict unvaccinated individuals’ capacity to access a broad range of social, recreational, and discretionary events and businesses throughout the province. 

This unconstitutional measure is being used as a means of coercing people into undertaking a medical intervention which goes against the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights on several levels. I will outline below how this violates human rights by identifying several principles that would be violated by the implementation of vaccine passports.

In the first principle, Human Dignity and Human Rights, article 3 paragraph 2 clearly states: “The interest and welfare of the individual should have priority over the sole interest of science and society.” This principle stipulates that the interests and welfare of the individual is the priority over society. Personal interests and welfare encompass one’s personal health, psychological, social, spiritual, and cultural factors. 

The Declaration states that it “Recognizing that health does not depend solely on scientific and technological research developments but also on psychosocial and cultural factors,” and that “also bearing in mind that a person’s identity includes biological, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual dimensions,” and as such signals that the interests and welfare of the individual should include more than simply their health interests but also their individual psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual interests.

There are many personal reasons to consider when individuals choose not to take a vaccine. The reasons may range from not wanting to be subject to adverse reactions, concern over interaction with current health conditions or medication, or allergic reactions, among others. Each of these reasons are valid due to the fact that long-term safety tests were not completed before the mandated vaccines were put into use. 

Furthermore, these reasons are valid even after long-term safety studies are completed based on individual health circumstances that contraindicate various medications. In addition to that, many individuals may choose for spiritual reasons that they cannot receive vaccines because of the ingredients used in the vaccines, for example some vaccines use aborted fetal cells which would violate certain individuals spiritual and psychological well-being. 

Conscience and religious freedoms are also protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which this policy violates in addition to the Declaration. 

When this is taken together with the additional principles and information outlined below then the vaccination passports and mandatory vaccinations are violating this order of priority of interests and are not considering the individuals health and wellbeing.