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Highlights
- CEO of Canada’s largest trucking company says vaccine mandate ‘not an issue at all’ CEO of TFI International Inc.
- says its operations are virtually untouched by the mandate.
- Alain Bédard says last month was looking like “the best January ever for the company” following a fourth quarter that saw profits jump by more than two-thirds and revenue leap by 91 per cent.
- He says an end to the exemption for cross-border truckers was predictable and that drivers who opted not to get jabbed have been reassigned to Canadian routes.
- The past 10 days have seen truckers bear down on Ottawa to protest the mandate, and snowball into an entrenched demonstration.