B.C. will introduce bubble-zone legislation during the fall legislature session to protect hospitals and schools from aggressive protesters who oppose vaccine cards and mandates.
B.C. Solicitor General and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth, who has called aggressive and violent anti-vaccine protesters “COVIDiots,” confirmed the news Monday.
“I can confirm that it will be legislation and it will be introduced later this session.”
Protests at hospitals organized by people who don’t believe in the vaccine have turned ugly, with some health-care workers saying they’ve been physically and verbally assaulted coming to and leaving work.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to make it a criminal offence to block access to buildings that provide health care.
More recently, Farnworth and B.C. Premier John Horgan have harshly criticized anti-vaccine protesters who entered a school in the Interior during school hours.
