Rick Nicholls, the MPP for the southwestern Ontario riding of Chatham-Kent-Leamington, addressed the media on Thursday saying he is waiting to see if he’ll be removed from the Progressive Conservative Party caucus after refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, adding that he chooses “to exercise this autonomy over my own body.” On Wednesday The Canadian Press reported government whip Lorne Coe issued a letter to two MPPs that said “every member of the Progressive Conservative team” must get vaccinated unless medically unable to do so.
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