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Per WSJ, US does the same thing Jan 22. Both following an announcement of doing so in early Dec 2021. Funny how each side never/rarely mentions the other...

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Weren’t OSHA mandates killed by the Supreme Court?

It's not an OSHA mandate.

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) led the fight against the OSHA vaccine mandate:

ATA-Led Coalition Sues to Block Federal Vaccine Mandate[0]

ATA Hails Supreme Court’s Rejection of OSHA Vaccine-or-Test Mandate[1]

Supreme Court Stays OSHA Vaccine-or-Test Mandate[2]: "American Trucking Associations President and CEO Chris Spear issued a statement calling it 'a tremendous victory.' ... 'Thanks to this ruling, our industry will continue to deliver critical goods, as our nation recovers from the pandemic and we move our economy forward.'"

Prior to that victory, they had been pushing for an industry exemption[3]: "[W]e formally requested that the Biden Administration exempt professional truck drivers from the mandate"

[0] https://www.ttnews.com/articles/ata-led-coalition-sues-block...

[1] https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/ata-hails-supreme-cou...

[2] https://www.truckinginfo.com/10159451/supreme-court-stays-os...

[3] https://www.trucking.org/vaccinemandate

I believe it, but this isn't an OSHA matter, this is a border policy.

My apologies; I had misunderstood the earlier comment to mean that the US would be imposing a vaccine mandate on US truckers within the US.

This article mentions it too. No need to switch to a different billionaire to get this info.

It says so in the article, though.

> Shipping will get disrupted in both directions, as the U.S. is the set to impose its own vaccine mandate on foreign travelers on Jan. 22.

> Per WSJ, US does the same thing Jan 22

Do you have that link please? Could not find it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/truckers-fret-over-pending-covi...

Thank you very much. I had mistaken the GP comment to mean US truckers would be subject to the vaccine mandate within the US. Now I understand that the US is imposing a vaccine mandate on Canadian truckers entering the US as of January 22nd. Policy-makers realize the incredible burden that the vaccine mandate would create internally; perhaps a cross-border trade slowdown is not significant enough to warrant reciprocity in their minds?

No, policy makers tried to make the vaccine mandate internally, and the Supreme Court blocked it.

This irritates me quite a bit. This is not the first time the U.S. government has gone "Well, fine. If I can't get away with violating my own Constitution, I'll just use a neighbor/Ally to do it for me, and get what I wanted anyway, except now it's just called Diplomacy!

The Supreme Court had no problem restricting womens healthcare, despite those rights being determined to be constitutionally protected.

The current SC does not care about the constitution unless it happens to align with their beliefs.

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