OTTAWA --
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra informed CTV’s Energy Play that he'll maintain a summit subsequent week with provide chain stakeholders.
“There isn’t a single individual that we all know, or ourselves, that haven't skilled supply-chain points over the previous couple of months or previous couple of years,” he informed Evan Solomon on CTV Information Channel’s Energy Play. He referred to as COVID-19 “the foundation trigger” of these points.
Alghabra additionally stated the federal authorities is working to handle labour shortages.
A convoy of protesters is heading to Ottawa to rally towards a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing into Canada. The mandate on the American facet of the border got here into impact Sunday.
Alghabra says the federal authorities has been phasing in vaccine mandates throughout industries that make up the nation’s provide chains.
“We began with travellers first,” informed Energy Play. He stated that method included mandating vaccines for marine and air journey earlier than transferring to frame truckers.
“Final November we introduced that we're going to implement it for truck drivers who're crossing the border,” he informed Energy Play.
Minister Alghabra discusses the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers within the video on the prime of this text
Truckers put together to depart on a cross-country convoy destined for Ottawa to protest a federal vaccine mandate for truckers, in Delta, B.C., on Sunday, January 23, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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