Ontario reports highest single-day COVID-19 case count in more than 6 months
The province of Ontario is reporting its highest single-day total of new COVID-19 cases in more than six months.
Health officials reported 1,184 new infections on Sunday, the third consecutive day the case count has topped 1,000.
It’s the highest single-day total of new cases since May 28 when 1,273 were reported.
Would national vaccine mandates work in Canada? Experts aren’t sure
With European states turning to mandatory national vaccination regimes to deal with record COVID-19 infections, experts in Canada say that while science and the law may back the Liberal government if it chose to follow suit, it might not be the panacea the public is hoping for.
There are significant challenges to imposing a national mandatory vaccination program for all Canadians, the first of which is the age-old jurisdictional battle between the federal government and the provinces.
Under the Constitution, the provinces are responsible for delivering health care, and a vaccine mandate would fall under that remit. If the federal government wanted to take over that responsibility, it would have to either use the Emergencies Act or pass legislation giving it the authority to act.
This smells of the CBC floating a national vax mandate trial balloon on behalf of the Liberal Party.
