Trudeau’s government is reportedly set to lift the vaccine mandate for military personnel amidst an incoming class-action lawsuit and dire staffing shortage.

Last week, the Ottawa Sun reported on the “leaked details of the military’s revised vaccination policy.”

This move by the government would allow military personnel who were discharged for refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate to apply to get their jobs back. Furthermore, new recruits won’t have to be vaccinated.

Although 96% of military staff were reportedly vaccinated, at least 1,300 of them applied for exemptions from the vaccine mandate.

One thousand of those 1,300 individuals were denied their requests and subsequently lost their jobs or are still fighting the mandates with the government.

“These people have lost income, promotions and pensions,” said lawyer Catherine Christensen.

According to the Sun, Christensen is building a class-action lawsuit that “will seek hundreds of millions of dollars in damages based on what [she] alleges was an abuse of power.”

“These people being released are outstanding soldiers. It’s unbelievable the quality of the people the military is losing,” she said.

Coincidentally or not, this news also comes at a time when the military is depleted, and the government is desperate for recruitment. In March, it was reported that the Canadian military is 7,600 staff short of full strength. 

Thus, it appears Trudeau’s Liberals are conceding one of two things. Either the health and safety of the military is less a priority than is filling up their desperate staffing needs, or this is a tacit admission that unvaccinated military members are no more a threat to the vaccinated military members’ safety than vaccinated members are.

If it’s the latter, you’d think that special quarantine requirements for unvaccinated people entering Canada would be dropped as well, but it’s unlikely to happen.