The Privy Council secretly polled Canadians on pandemic vaccination tactics, Access To Information records show. Researchers tested options from paying Canadians to take a Covid shot to punishing the unvaccinated by denying them access to “certain activities.”

Asked, “Once a Covid-19 vaccine is available to you, to what extent would each of the following hypothetical measures make you more or less likely to get the vaccine right away?” A total 46 percent supported a “financial reward from government,” said the report. A total 44 percent endorsed compulsory orders that “getting the vaccine was mandatory to engage in certain activities.”