Jessica Bleasdale heard New Brunswick was removing COVID-19 public safety restrictions across the province, including in schools, she leaped into action for her young son River.River, 12, is in Grade 7 and has both neurodevelopmental and gastrointestinal issues.
It is something he and his family know makes him more vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 and the complications that can arise from infection.It made her nervous to send him to school — and nervous about almost all the things a parent would be with an immunocompromised child.So, she filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission in New Brunswick, against chief medical officer of health Dr.
Jennifer Russell, Health Minister Dorothy Shephard, Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Dominic Cardy, and Premier Blaine Higgs.