Nurses denounce anti-vaccine passport protest in St. John's
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Nursing groups in Newfoundland and Labrador are denouncing a protest against COVID-19 vaccination mandates and vaccine passports held Monday.
About 50 people held signs and photographs displaying phrases such as "I Stand For Freedom" and "My Body, My Choice" to a number of honking cars outside the Health Sciences Centre. Organizer Dana Metcalfe is a representative of a group called Canadian Frontline Nurses and a federal election candidate running for the People's Party of Canada. Before the protest, the Registered Nurses' Union of Newfoundland and Labrador issued a statement condemning the views of Canadian Frontline Nurses. "The audacity of fringe groups to attempt to derail the progress we have made in fighting this pandemic is astounding, disappointing and does not represent the professional standards that are expected when identifying oneself as a registered nurse," said a separate statement from the College of Registered Nurses, the provincial nurses' regulatory body. While Metcalfe said protesters are against the idea of vaccination passports, she stressed the protest was not anti-vaccine. She said a "large part" of protesters were vaccinated against COVID-19, but would not disclose her own vaccination status. "It's a very, very slippery slope that we're on in regards to medical autonomy, human rights," Metcalfe said Monday. "I think Newfoundland should take a pause."
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