All Canadians have the right to make decisions regarding vaccination guided by full knowledge about risks and benefits. The principle of “Informed Consent” is at the foundation of Canadian Medical Law. It grants “every individual the right to information on material risks and the fundamental right of persons to be free from unwanted physical interference.” Vaccination is an invasive medical procedure which carries a risk of both injury and death; it is not exempt from Medical Law nor the ethic of Informed Consent.
Across Canada, minor children will come under increasing pressure in the school setting to make their own vaccine decision without the knowledge or consent of their parents or guardians. Under the ‘Mature Minor Consent’ doctrine this is perfectly legal. The “Mature Minor” doctrine usurps parental authority while giving governments the power to coerce children into making health care decisions that conflict with family values.
In recent years it has become evident that vaccines are first and foremost a means for drug manufacturers to reap large profits and satisfy their shareholders’ investment dreams. Inevitably, health consumers are the losers.
Related VCC Links
- Intentional Effort to Undermine Parental Rights and Responsibilities (3/10/2020)
- Ontario Public Health Unit links to School Vaccination Clinic Schedules (2/9/2020)
- The Mature Minor Doctrine – What it Means For You & Your Child (12/29/2019)
- News Release – Vaccine Choice Canada October 28, 2019 (10/28/2019)
- New Brunswick Mandatory Vaccine Bill 39 Legal Opinion (9/8/2019)
- Why Is Dr. Cadesky So Afraid of RFK Jr.? (7/14/2019)
- The Real Reason for Vaccine Mandates (6/17/2019)
- New Brunswick – Push for Mandatory Vaccinations For Children (6/7/2019)
- Canadian asks Senators to dig deeper than the rhetoric on vaccines (4/9/2019)
- Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada Senate Forum (4/9/2019)
- Accurate, Misleading, and Dishonest Statements by BC’s PHO (3/17/2019)
- Confirmation Bias in the Media (3/15/2019)
- VCC Responds to Measles Hysteria (2/21/2019)
- Message from a Parent to Globe and Mail – End the Deception (2/14/2019)
- The reality of vaccine injury: a much needed lesson for Carly Weeks (2/13/2019)
- National Post – What Will You Do? (1/8/2019)
- Have You Experienced Bullying, Coercion, Intimidation or Refusal from an Ontario physician? (12/27/2018)
- Dear Ginette Petitpas-Taylor Canadian Health Minister (12/7/2018)
- Taking On A Giant (12/1/2018)
- Open Letter to the WHO on the Issue of Vaccine Safety (11/17/2018)
- Ontario Parent Challenges Principal on Pharmaceutical Sales in Schools (10/15/2018)
- Children First Canada Report Ignores Vaccine Injury (10/2/2018)
- V-Bulletin September 2018 (9/29/2018)
- Educating Alberta Teachers on Vaccination (6/15/2018)
- Manitoba Schools Executive Needs to Do Its Homework on Vaccines (3/15/2018)
- The Vaccine Program: Betrayal of Public Trust & Institutional Corruption (2/27/2018)
- Government Sanctioned Bullying With Ontario Vaccine Legislation (12/12/2017)
- Ontario Ministry of Health Disseminates Myths About Vaccine Safety (12/5/2017)
- VCC Response to 2017 Ontario Vaccination Exemption Form (9/24/2017)
- Edmonton Catholic School Board is Seriously Misguided on Mandatory Vaccination Motion (4/24/2017)
- The Safe Vaccination Debate – Dr Judy Wilyman Reports (3/16/2017)
- Ontario Teacher Responds to Professional Misconduct Verdict (3/10/2017)
- School Vaccination Clinics and Informed Consent (3/6/2017)
- Grieving Dad Reacts to Teacher Persecution (2/25/2017)
- First Do No Harm by Ted Kuntz (1/22/2017)
- CBC Advocates for Erosion of Charter Rights (11/16/2016)
- Doctor’s Call for Mandatory Vaccine Based on Irrelevant Data (11/14/2016)
- MPs: Uphold our Charter Rights & Freedoms to Vaccine Choice (10/29/2016)
- VCC Holds Federal Health Minister Accountable (7/27/2016)
- Ontario Health Unit Issues Illegal School Suspension Orders (5/19/2016)
- Ombudsman Complaint – Ontario Ministry of Health Deceiving Canadian Parents (5/9/2016)
- Ontario Politicians – Separating personal beliefs from civic duties (1/27/2016)
- What Motivates The Anti-Choice Movement? (12/17/2015)
- VCC Invites CBC to Show Leadership on Vaccine Issues (11/10/2015)
- VCC Educates Politicians on Constitutional Rights (10/5/2015)
- V-Bulletin September 2015 (10/2/2015)
- Urgent Question to Canadian Political Parties re: Mandatory Vaccination (9/24/2015)
- No Vaccine Mandates in Canada! Petition to the CMA Update (8/26/2015)
- V-Bulletin August 22, 2015 Action Alert No Vaccine Mandates in Canada! (8/23/2015)
- Petitioning Canadian Medical Association No Vaccine Mandates in Canada! (8/23/2015)
- Our letter to the CMA re Resolution for Mandatory Vaccination (8/20/2015)
- Mandating Vaccines: A Cause for Concern – Media Information Package (8/18/2015)
- V-Bulletin Summer 2015 (8/11/2015)
- Consensus Science and the Threat to Medical Freedom (8/5/2015)
- An Open Letter to Legislators Currently Considering Vaccine Legislation from Tetyana Obukhanych PhD (5/22/2015)
- Forced Vaccinations: For the Greater Good? By Lucija Tomljenovic PhD (5/22/2015)
- V-Bulletin March 2015 (4/1/2015)
- V-Bulletin February 2015 (2/28/2015)
- The Myth Of Vaccine Safety by Jamie Deckoff-Jones MD (2/11/2015)
- How Vaccine Hysteria Could Spark Totalitarian Nightmare by Lee Hieg MD (2/9/2015)
- Formal Complaint – Breech of Journalistic Standards (5/27/2014)
- The Penta Project (11/24/2013)
- BC backs off (12/3/2012)
- Hyping influenza deaths (11/11/2012)
- Ontario Ombudsman Complaint Lack of Informed Consent (11/1/2012)
- “Free” boys’ shots next? (7/25/2012)
- HPV Vaccine Activism in Canada (2/4/2012)
- BMJ On The Hot Seat (1/14/2012)
- So Who’s Disgraced Now?!!! (7/26/2011)
- Compensation Plan Rebuffed (3/2/2011)
- Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal (1/21/2010)
- The Controversy of the Latent Period Following Immunizations (11/26/2008)
- Auto-immune risks of hepatitis B vaccination: a clue to biological plausibility (11/17/2005)
- Mandatory Flu Shot Not Justified for Health Care Workers (9/13/2005)
- The True Story of Pertussis Vaccination: A sordid Legacy? (7/1/2002)
- Letter to Ontario’s Chief Medical Health Officer (11/24/1999)
- Rubella Vaccination – Utilitarianism & Herd Immunity (1/1/1999)
- CMA Says No To Mandatory Hepatitis B vaccination for MDs (7/14/1998)
- Nightingale Research Foundation Press Release (10/6/1994)
Related VCC Pages
- The “Ethics” of Vaccination in Canada (a critical look at the abuse of your rights as a medical consumer)
Related External Links
- Canadian Immunization Guide – Pre-vaccination counselling
- Toronto Public Health ignored requests to not immunize son, mom says – Boy, 12, says nurse ignored his objections to getting shots – “Jillian Goree says Toronto Public Health gave her 12-year-old son three shots at his school, even though she clearly indicated that she didn’t want him to receive the immunizations. Goree said she ticked ‘no’ and wrote an extra ‘do not vaccinate’ note at the top of the form for the Human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis and meningitis shots, as she had already booked an appointment with her family doctor to get her son the vaccinations.”
- B.C. family furious teen vaccinated without parental consent – Dean Bootsma not against vaccines for everyone, just his children – “Under the B.C. Infants Act, however, parents do not need to sign a consent form for children 14 years of age and older to be inoculated, as long as a doctor or nurse believes the child is mature enough to understand the risks and benefits of the treatment.”
- Biomedical Ethics: The Ethical Implications of Mass Immunization by Catherine J. M. Diodati (pdf)
- The Denial of Adverse Event Risk Following Immunization and the Loss of Informed Consent – A Perspective – K. Paul Stoller, MD, FACHM
- Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Scientific Fraud and Conflict of Interest in Vaccine Research, Licensing & Policymaking
- Deadly Immunity (Rolling Stone presents the investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr of the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal) (Link to video)
- Minority Report: A Covert CDC Program Inoculated Black Babies with Deadly, Experimental Measles Vaccines By Neil Z. Miller
