Under Mackenzie County’s new policy, businesses with vaccine mandates currently under contract can work remotely — as their employees are banned from working on county sites — or subcontract the project to a company that does not have a mandatory vaccine policy. (Matt Rourke/The Associated Press)
Companies can still bid on Mackenzie County contracts, but they’re ineligible to be awarded them
February 22, 2022
A county in northwestern Alberta has approved a policy that disqualifies businesses with mandatory COVID-19 vaccine mandates from being awarded future county contracts.
Under the new policy, which took effect last week, businesses currently under contract with Mackenzie County can work remotely — as their employees are now banned from working on county sites — or subcontract the project to a company that does not have a mandatory vaccine policy.
“It’s a personal choice for people to make,” said Reeve Josh Knelsen. “I don’t think that government has any business telling people if they may or may not come to work because of this.”
Byron Peters, the county’s interim chief administrative officer, presented an item for council to discuss during last week’s committee of the whole meeting.
It proposed amending the procurement policy to place restrictions on businesses that have mandatory vaccine policies.
Council approved the policy during its meeting on Feb. 16. Knelsen said the decision was unanimous.
Mackenzie County, about 700 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, includes the hamlets of Fort Vermilion and La Crete. As of last year the region had a population of just over 12,600.
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“New policy rejects science” BWAH HA HA! Coming from state-controlled media, that’s a laugh in itself. The only thing it rejects is ‘political’ science. There is more than enough evidence out there that these jabs have zero benefit (except to make Trudeau and his cronies rich) and plenty of risk, including attacking people’s perfectly normal immune systems. The policy also establishes that the only ones being targeted are those businesses who have condemned perfectly good people to die via unemployment due to standing up for their bodily autonomy.
We need more legislation like this to go around Canada and I happily accept this practice. Nice to see when the ‘discrimination’ is on the other foot, huh? I can’t wait to hear all about the whining, crying and complaining over this. Welcome to what’s it like being those who have had the strength and courage to say “No” for the past two years.