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Some Canadians are going to great lengths to avoid mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, including one former public servant from the Outaouais who moved her family to Mexico.
"This fall I became very uncomfortable in my country. I no longer felt like I was an equal member of society," said Amélie Gervais in a French interview with Radio-Canada.
Gervais worked as a civilian member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 16 years before retiring on Oct. 2.
"When the COVID-19 vaccine came out, I started to research and I decided to wait. I just wanted to wait, but I found it was quickly imposed," she said.
Once vaccine passports were introduced in Quebec, Gervais said she "started looking at where in the world it would be good to live, where people could live without [a passport]."
She considered several places, including Costa Rica, but scratched that option when that country began enforcing a similar passport system.
In the end, Gervais, her husband and their three kids, ages four to nine, moved to Mexico on Oct. 26, just before the Oct. 30th cutoff, when the federal government began phasing in the need for a COVID-19 vaccine to travel by plane or train.
Some Canadians are going to great lengths to avoid mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, including one former public servant from the Outaouais who moved her family to Mexico.
"This fall I became very uncomfortable in my country. I no longer felt like I was an equal member of society," said Amélie Gervais in a French interview with Radio-Canada.
Gervais worked as a civilian member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 16 years before retiring on Oct. 2.
"When the COVID-19 vaccine came out, I started to research and I decided to wait. I just wanted to wait, but I found it was quickly imposed," she said.
Once vaccine passports were introduced in Quebec, Gervais said she "started looking at where in the world it would be good to live, where people could live without [a passport]."
She considered several places, including Costa Rica, but scratched that option when that country began enforcing a similar passport system.
In the end, Gervais, her husband and their three kids, ages four to nine, moved to Mexico on Oct. 26, just before the Oct. 30th cutoff, when the federal government began phasing in the need for a COVID-19 vaccine to travel by plane or train.
