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Quebec gym owner plans to keep vaccine passport program in place past end date

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COVID-19 vaccine passport, it will still be needed at some businesses and places in the health-care network past March 14.Some tell Global News that march deadline is too soon and plan to continue to require clients and visitors to show proof of vaccination.“I’m still going to ask for it,” said Athletica Lac Brome owner Alan Gauthier. “COVID just doesn’t go away March 14.”Gauthier says he’s making the decision to protect his clientele since some are immunocompromised.

He believes only allowing vaccinated people into the Knowlton gym is safer.“It’s my business. It’s a private business. I mean, I’m allowed to establish the rule,” he said.

Quebec gym owner facing threats over policy to require clients to show proof of vaccination He insists a majority of clients at the Knowlton gym respect his decision.

Regardless, he expects some pushback.Gauthier said he isn’t afraid to tell people who refuse to comply, “there’s other gyms further down the road, and I’ll be happy to give you their address.”The Quebec Association of Hematologists and Oncologists (FMSQ) also intends to scan vaccine passports past March 14.“For specific patients who we deem high risk that are, for instance, hospitalized for their transplant or getting their active chemotherapy – we would still be able to ask for their visitors to to provide a vaccine passport,” said McGill University Health Centre hematologist Véronique Naessens.However the FMSQ is open to flexibility.

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