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The new health tax will be in place in the coming weeks.
– We are working on a scheme for adults who refuse to be vaccinated, because they constitute a financial burden for all the inhabitants of Quebec, says the Prime Minister of the province François Legault.
Last week, the government introduced a requirement to present vaccination certificates for shopping in government cannabis and liquor stores.
The province also has a curfew from 10 pm in the evening to 5 am in the morning.
The announcement comes after the province has registered the highest number of coronary-related deaths in the country. Yesterday, 62 new deaths were registered.
Over 12,000 have died in total in Quebec writing BBC.
Quebec has and is one of the provinces in Canada with the highest number of daily cases of infection. Yesterday, 8,710 new infections were registered. The hospital has 2,742 coronary-related admissions.
10 percent of the province’s inhabitants have not yet received a single dose of vaccine. They should not cause harm to the other 90 percent who are vaccinated, says Legault.
Legault points out that the unvaccinated part makes up 50 per cent of hospital patients who need intensive care.
People who have not been vaccinated for medical reasons will be exempted from the new tax, he states.
My taxes can be divisive
Kerry Bowman is a professor of bioethics, and a lecturer in global health at the University of Toronto sees several challenges in implementing a health tax for the non-vaccinated.
– This tax can be enormously divisive, how much do you want to pressure people? he says to the Canadian newspaper The Toronto star.
He believes the new tax undermined what Canadian citizens like to think of as the basis of their health care system
– The health system does not judge the type of behavior that we like or do not like in patients. This is at the root of Canada’s health law, and ethics underpins the law.
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