The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) continues to require athletes to be vaccinated for COVID-19, including for the NAIG Games in Nova Scotia this July.

Several parents approached the Western Standard with questions about why the vaccination policy was still in place when indigenous peoples were never required to be vaccinated. Nova Scotia has lifted all its COVID-19 restrictions and vaccination policies.

Kerry Cooper, a parent with three children on the British Columbia soccer team competing at the Games, applied for COVID-19 exceptions for his children and was denied.

Cooper told the NAIG that “nothing in Canada at this time requires anyone to be vaccinated anywhere, including Nova Scotia, and they could not provide me an answer” as to why they continue with the COVID-19 vaccination policy.

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