What a crazy idea to want to mix taxation with the management of the pandemic by proposing an antivax tax! A measure that can be named as you want since the terms are unknown, which says a lot about the seriousness of the thing. The CAQ government seems to have forgotten the wreckage of all attempts to tweak health taxation, which invariably come crashing down on the same pitfalls: the Canada Health Act, which prohibits direct billing for services to users, and the harm caused to the poorest and the chronically ill. Let us think of the recurring debate on the co-payment, which always ends in fishtail. Let us also think of the “health contribution” introduced by Raymond Bachand in 2010, a trick to reduce the deficit, which has since been withdrawn. This time, we outdo ourselves. By targeting a segment of the population, we are venturing into a minefield. The new version risks both creating a worrying precedent and undermining the fundamental rights enshrined in the charters of rights and freedoms. How can we seriously consider fiscally penalizing unvaccinated people when vaccination is not even compulsory? This is without taking into account the dubious effectiveness of such a measure, the probable administrative heaviness and the forbidding prospect of seeing the tax authorities interfere in the health file of citizens. No, it’s not the find of the century.
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