Q&A: Can a Hill Response Be Non-Partisan After 2021 Vaccine Divides?

Day 4 · 4:47:25 · Shawn Buckley · Dean Allison

• 🧩 A reporter challenges non-partisanship given only Conservative MPs were unvaccinated around the 2021 election.
• 🌉 Buckley replies that vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated division must be transcended because people shared a similar human experience.
• 🔄 He generalizes that people act alike regardless of prior belief and that the project is about listening, not relitigating sides.

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Transcript

Speaker K · 4:47:25

And while you may have an argument there on the people that will be engaging you, but at the political level, we're looking for a response from Parliament Hill. Can you imagine that there's any opportunity across partisan affiliate, given the fact that the Conservative caucus was the only one that had MPs who weren't vaccinated in the lead-up and conclusion of the 2021 election?

Shawn Buckley · 4:47:46

Well, you know, I think that, um, you know, there was a division before, unvaccinated and unvaccinated, but I think we need to transcend that now because the reality is, is we all had actually a very similar experience. We just believe different things. And, you know, I, I will be generalizing now, but I, I think we have to understand that people are people and we act the same.

Dean Allison · 4:48:11

And so, you know, just to, uh, Day 4 in the afternoon as we, uh, we finish up with our final session.