e-3901 (Health)
Petition Status: Open for signature
Total Number of Signatures: 15,750 (As of Mar 20, 2022)
Petitioner: Lydia Henry
Member of Parliament: Tom Kmiec
Constituency: Calgary Shepard
Caucus: Conservative
Province: AB
Opened For Signature: March 11, 2022,  at 2:51 p.m. (EDT)
Closed For Signature: April 10, 2022,  at 2:51 p.m. (EDT)
Petition to the Minister of Transport

Whereas:

• According to Westjet’s first Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tammy McKnight, as of April 23, 2021, there had been no known case of COVID-19 transmission onboard any Canadian aircraft;
• The Vancouver Airport Authority on October 26, 2020, noted there was zero transmission occurring onboard an aircraft on Westjet’s flights;
• A review conducted by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization found no information regarding the transmission of COVID-19 on airplanes;
• A CBC article entitled ¨COVID-19 transmission on flights ‘extremely rare’, Dr Tam says¨, from November 10, 2020, noted that Dr. Theresa Tam said COVID-19 transmission aboard flights is extremely rare;
• An International Air Transport Association study in 2020 found that out of 1.2 billion passengers worldwide, only 44 cases of COVID-19 were reported as flight-related transmission;
• According to a Transport Canada document from November 4, 2020, that ¨likelihood of passengerto-passenger transmission aboard aircraft appears to be low¨; and
• The restriction imposed on Canadians taking domestic flights, trains and ferries is an unreasonable infringement of their rights and freedoms that cannot be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.