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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/deadline-mandatory-vaccination-health-care-1.6209500
By blinking first on vaccine deadline, Quebec may have given unvaccinated health workers upper hand | CBC News
The Quebec government's decision to delay the vaccination mandate by a month is raising questions about the province's leverage with unvaccinated health-care workers, and whether it's all been squandered.
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By blinking first on vaccine deadline, Quebec may have given unvaccinated health workers upper hand
Health minister's decision to delay vaccination mandate for health-care staff was 'weak,' says nurse
Thousands of unvaccinated health-care workers have been given an extra 30 days to get vaccine doses that have been available to them for months.
Wednesday's compromise on a vaccination mandate is raising concerns the Quebec government has all but squandered its leverage when it comes to pushing holdouts in the health-care system to get their shots.
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé said the province's health system has been pushed to the brink for more than a year and a half, and it can't afford to lose between 14,000 and 22,000 workers.
This, after weeks of insisting the province would be able to take a hard line and suspend staff without pay — and that health-care facilities would be able to manage without rolling back services.
According to government estimates, the province would have lost about 600 hospital beds and 35 operating rooms if it had pushed ahead with the original deadline.
As far as Friedland is concerned, the extra month won't make much of a difference and the government's deadline change sent a signal that unvaccinated workers in the health system hold the power, not the minister.
"You might have a few more that get vaccinated, but it won't change significantly," he said.
"It's like a child. If you try to discipline a child and you don't stick by the measures, the child knows that he or she has won."
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blinking : an expression of anger
upper hand : If you have the upper hand, you have more power than anyone else and so have control
squander : to waste money, or to use somthing valuable that you have a limited amount of in a bad or foolish way
leverage : the action or advantage of using a lever / power to influence people and get the results you want (noun)
to use something that you already have in order to achieve somthing new or better / to use money to get more money ( verb)
holdout : a person, organization, or country that continues to do seomthing, despite other people trying to force them not to
brink : the edge of a cliff or other high area, or the point at which something good or bad will happen / the point where a new or different situation is about to begin
discipline : to punish someone / to teach someone to behave in a controlled way