Loading ...Organizations That Impose COVID Mandates Must Also Be Responsible for Harms They May Cause: Ethicist
“This is really a very complicated issue because it gets to the heart of what rights and freedoms we really have in a democracy,” she said.
Ponesse said the issue raises questions about what rights and responsibilities organizations have when following orders from federal authorities.
“I don’t think the university gets to say, ‘Well, we’re imposing it just because Health Canada says we should,’ because if that mandate ends up causing harm, then the university is complicit in that harm,” she said.
“They’re partly responsible for that harm, and they can’t completely absolve themselves of responsibility—moral or legal responsibility—just by claiming that they were following the orders of Health Canada or the government.”