As of March 9, there are 12 Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) employees on unpaid leave for not disclosing their personal health information [in regards to their COVID-19 vaccination status, which the RMOW required as of March 1]. This is a policy that was made behind closed doors in a supposed democracy in an election year. This is not democracy.
The community and its citizens have a right to know which elected officials chose to support such a policy. How else we will hold them accountable in October for this behaviour?
Some of those now on leave are firefighters— is this rational or effective public policy? If your house was on fire or your daughter was drowning in the lake, would you want to see the firefighters’ vax pass before you trusted them to help you, save the life of your offspring or retrieve your precious art before it burned? We are not in a position to lose any firefighters on the force in this town. Why is no one reporting on this dangerous policy approach?
