BC Health Executive Fired for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Loses EI Appeal

Ravi Kahlon, then-B.C. Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation, has his provincial COVID-19 vaccine card scanned before a meal at a restaurant in Delta, B.C., on Sept. 15, 2021. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

A Federal Court judge has dismissed an appeal by a “deeply religious” British Columbia health executive who said he was wrongfully denied employment insurance after being fired three years ago for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Darold Sturgeon was fired as executive director of medical affairs for Interior Health in November 2021 after refusing to get the vaccine based on his Christian beliefs.