Dear VCC Members & Friends,
News Flash – Ontario government tightens the screws on non-vaccinating families
The Ontario government announced yesterday it has introduced an amendment to the Immunization of School Pupils Act that would narrow parents’ access to vaccine exemptions for their children. If passed, the amended legislation would require parents and guardians who want to file a non-medical exemption for reasons of conscience or religion, to submit to “an education session delivered by their local public health unit. Parents or guardians would have to complete this session before obtaining a vaccine exemption.”
Special Alert! – The government plans to ram this bill through as quickly as possible. Second reading is slated for Monday, May 16. We’ve been informed through an MPP that the government intends to push this legislative amendment through prior to June 9, the last sitting day of the legislature until September. There may be only one committee meeting where presentations can be made with speakers allotted 5 minutes. We’ll send out another news blast as soon as we have more information on the committee process, which can also include submitting written material to the committee. We’re asking as many members and supporters as possible to make written and oral presentations opposing the planned restrictions to vaccine exemptions.
The Canadian Charter or Rights and Freedoms already gives us the fundamental right to freedom of conscience and religion and the legal right to security of the person. This means, we already have the right to say NO to government imposed regulations that conflict with our sincerely held personal beliefs. By introducing a law it knows very well conflicts with our Constitutional rights, the government opens the door to increased public resistance to vaccine bullying, and to lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of this law.
Parents who choose to exempt their children from any or all vaccines are already well informed about the pros and cons of vaccination, and will push back against unfair regulations that are a colossal waste of time and resources, and violate our Charter protected basic human rights.
We encourage everyone in Ontario who is concerned about this issue to sign the petition we have created opposing this legislative amendment. Below we provide the link to the petition page for details on how to get involved.
Vaccine Choice Canada at the Total Health Show
Vaccine Choice Canada’s presence this year at the Total Health Show in Toronto, April 8-10 was a resounding success. The conference provided us a wonderful opportunity to reach out to the public to discuss many aspects of vaccine concerns and the provincial government’s intention to narrow access to vaccine exemptions.
With the enthusiastic help of our member volunteers helping at our booth throughout the weekend, we spoke to hundreds of interested people who picked up brochures, info cards, articles, reports, books and videos. Edda West gave two presentations entitled Vaccine Safety: Know the Science and the Facts which are available from the Total Health Shop. The first talk (approx 2-1/2 hours) is available here, and the second, 1 hour talk can be found here. Edda’s powerpoint presentation can be accessed here (pdf).
Petition to the Ontario Legislature opposing mandatory vaccine “education sessions”
Visitors to the VCC booth at the Total Health Show were asked to sign a petition protesting the Ontario government’s plan to amend existing legislation which would force parents to attend a vaccine “education session” prior to being allowed to obtain personal belief exemptions from vaccination under the Immunization of School Pupils Act. Over 500 Ontario residents signed our petition at the Total Health Show and via the mail. Many thanks to all of you who have signed and sent in petitions. If you’d like to participate (Ontario residents only), please see our petition page for further details, we are asking that all petitions be mailed by May 20. Two batches of petitions should be read into the Legislature the week of May 16 by two MPPs. Please keep sending in petitions as each new batch submitted will be read into the legislature.
Ontario health officials obstruct access to legal exemptions
Ontario health officials have stooped to a new low in their mission to prevent students from exercising their legal right to vaccine exemptions as provided by the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA). Each year Ontario health units send out suspension notices to students whose immunization records are incomplete. The suspension orders are an intimidation tactic to force students to submit to vaccine regulations while depriving them of the right to informed consent. Here you will see the Order for Suspension from Attendance at School form letter, issued by the Medical Officer of Health for the Hastings & Prince Edward Public Health advising that “…this order will be rescinded upon receipt of 1(A) or 1(B) or 1(C) as indicated below.”
1(A) is proof of immunization; 1(B) is a medical exemption; and 1(C) is a current medical exemption replacing one that has expired. The student is advised that either one of these 3 documents, when presented to the health unit, will lift the suspension order.
The problem is that there are four legal options a student can choose from to be exempted from vaccines, or to lift a suspension order, NOT three. The fourth and most important legal option 1(D) is, “A statement of conscience or religious belief (commissioned [sic] affidavit required)”. This fourth legal option, has been arbitrarily omitted as a choice from the suspension order by the Medical Officer of Health. The “statement of conscience or religious belief” option is the one most frequently chosen by students and parents who file legal vaccine exemptions, and is explicitly incorporated in the ISPA by law.
By deliberately omitting the personal belief exemption option as an acceptable legal remedy to the suspension order, Public Health officials engage in obstruction of the Law (Immunization of School Pupils Act, 1984) which clearly provides personal belief exemptions for reasons of conscience or religion as a legal option for students choosing to decline vaccination.
Health officials have a duty to uphold the law(s) they operate under. In this case, they are in violation of both the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) the law which protects the individual’s right to refuse vaccines by filing a personal belief exemption, (statement of conscience or religious belief affidavit) and they deny students their legal rights under Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act, the law which protects the right to voluntary and informed consent prior to submitting to a medical treatment as clearly stated in these four points in the Act:
In their zeal to vaccinate 100% of the student population, public health officials have clearly crossed the line. When government agencies deliberately manipulate and obfuscate legal protections citizens are entitled to under the law, a strong signal is sent that they are above the law and can engage in both misrepresentation and fraud with impunity.
These misleading and unlawful suspension notices are indicative of a larger pattern of continued insidious, unspoken and intentional effort by the Ministry of Health and it’s public health units to misinform students and parents of their legal rights in violation of provincial laws. The laws being violated by provincial health bureaucrats include the Immunization of School Pupils Act, and Ontario’s Consent to Treatment Act which protects the individual’s right to voluntary & informed consent. The Consent to treatment Act PROHIBITS obtaining consent to medical treatment through misrepresentation or fraud.
Most importantly, these coercive actions by health agencies contravene the basic human rights protections we are all guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, namely the right to freedom of conscience and religion, and the right to security of the person.
This health unit also issued a press release on March 14, 2016 titled “Extra Immunization Clinics Available to Avoid Student Suspensions” which omits the availability of legal exemptions, implying that students have no choice.
It is our contention that Ontario’s Minister of Health, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Ontario’s Ministry of Education, various schools, health units, and public health officers are intentionally misleading and deceiving Ontario parents and students by denying them the right to make voluntary and informed choices when considering vaccination, as provided by law. What will it take to stop this deceptive, illegal and fraudulent behaviour? We need to stand up to this deceptive, illegal and fraudulent behaviour.
Mature Minor Doctrine
If it’s not grief enough to know that health officials lie about students’ right to be legally exempted from vaccines, the Mature Minor Doctrine adds insult to injury. This ‘doctrine’ legally allows underage children of no specific age in Ontario or BC, to consent to their own medical treatment, including vaccination. It was originally put in place to allow underage children (teens) to access birth control devices and abortions without their parents’ knowledge or consent. In Ontario this was made legal by the 1996 Consent to Treatment Act. Then public health began using it as a tool to coerce children as young as 11 to consent to vaccination in the school setting. Some background on it is discussed here.
Vaccine nurses threaten children with school suspension if they’re not up to date with all the required vaccines (Ontario added 3 more vaccines to the schedule in 2014). Children are told that they can sign their own consent form without asking their parents first.
Children are never told that they have the legal right to vaccine exemptions, that vaccination like any medical treatment is voluntary, nor are they provided with adequate information on vaccine risks which means that informed consent is never obtained. Anyone who understands the complexity of this issue, also understands that an 11 year old child does not have the intellectual sophistication nor life experience to make an informed decision about whether or not to accept injection(s) of complex biochemical drugs which carry a known risk of injury and death for some.
The only protection children have from being captive to this coercion, brainwashing and deception is to be well educated by parents who have thoroughly researched this issue and have taught the child never to submit to any drugs or injections offered in the school or other settings without immediately contacting the parents for help.
Ontario’s Immunization 2020 plan lays out the road map, or “strategic framework” by which the provincial government will accelerate its vaccine agenda over the coming years. Everyone is targeted! Its educational strategies (read propaganda) include the development of “immunization teaching modules” to be used in the school system to brainwash children into accepting vaccination without question.
Ombudsman complaint – 2016
Vaccine Choice Canada has, for the second time, filed a formal complaint with the Ontario Ombudsman against the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for its failure to inform the public of its legal right to obtain vaccine exemptions under the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA). Under this law, all children attending school (and daycare under a separate Act), have the right to be exempted from vaccines for reasons of conscience or religion.
Our second complaint, submitted on May 5, 2016, details instances collected after our initial 2012 complaint where the Ministry, the Minister of Health, Health Units and the Media have consistently deceived students and parents by deliberately excluding clear and factual information about the availability of vaccine exemptions under the law. You can read our current and previous complaint at our website.
Vaxxed – From Cover Up to Catastrophe – New film exposes corruption at highest levels of the CDC http://vaxxedthemovie.com/
Following is an excerpt from Dr. Gary Null & Richard Gale’s excellent analysis of this new documentary about the dark underbelly of a medical industry that protects fraudulent vaccine science to the detriment of the health and well being of our children.
Read the full article here.
VCC is committed to bringing Vaxxed to Canadian audiences. We will keep you updated.
Vaccination Policies and Human Rights
In an uplifting and powerful presentation to the UN’s 25th International Health and Environment Conference on April 26, 2016 , New York Law Professor, Mary Holland received a standing ovation for spelling out the explicit wording of international treaties and human rights codes that protect individuals from government intrusion and medical abuse. She reminded us that the United Nations international human rights legislation has been put in place to prevent the recurrence of medical atrocities that occurred during the second World War.
Professor Holland focused on the role of law in protecting human rights when it comes to vaccines and said, “How can we balance the rights of the collective vs. the rights of the individual? Vaccines, by their very nature, are a population-based medical intervention……But what about informed consent in the area of medical treatment, including preventive medical treatment? What about informed consent to vaccination? This is a controversial issue today in many countries, including the United States.”
View video of her presentation: Part 1 and part 2. Read full text of her presentation here.
She said,
This precautionary principle in medicine leads directly to the view that vaccination policies must be recommended, not coerced. The doctor-patient relationship depends first and foremost on trust, and coercion undermines it. When the doctor-patient relationship is based on coercion, trust is a casualty, and doctors then serve the state, and by extension the society, above their individual patients. This is a slippery slope, where civilized medicine has too often derailed in the past.”
Furthermore,
What is clear is that our rights and freedoms with regard to medical choice making are under attack by the very institutions that we would expect to protect and preserve our rights and freedoms – our governments. These unlawful efforts by the Minister of Health, government representatives, and the compliance of the media undermine our confidence and trust in these institutions. These are serious matters that require our attention and our actions. If we don’t stand up for our rights and freedoms, we will lose them.
Mary Holland speech at the UN
Justice for Ezekiel? By Professor, Thinking Moms Revolution- Story of Alberta Family’s persecution by the state
Circumcision and Autism: A Recent Danish Study by F. Edward Yazbak M.D.
How More Than 5000 Children Were Hurt … Again by F. Edward Yazbak MD
MMR Vaccination and Autism Revisited in 2016 by F Edward Yazbak MD
Certain vaccines increase food allergen IgE
Honest Disagreement in a Pro-Vaccine World
James Lyons-Weiler – My Journey from Ignorance
Why Are We Not Hearing The Whole Story About Vaccines?
How Aluminum in Vaccines Affects Your Health
Do Vaccines Cause Cancer? By Louise Kuo Habakus
Is the Autism Epidemic Real? By Robert Kennedy Jr.
Robert De Niro enters the vaccine safety battle
Richard Gale and Gary Null – Why is the CDC Petrified of the Film Vaxxed?
Ontario expanding HPV vaccination program to include boys
Dr. Brian Hooker’s official statement regarding William Thompson (CDC Whistleblower)
Producer of VAXXED Speaks Out: “This is Bigger than Watergate”
Vaxxed – The Movie – The filmmakers behind the controversial documentary, “Vaxxed,” join the table to discuss the link between early childhood vaccinations and Autism. Video Length: 28:30
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The Story of Measles Sharp Decline
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Pediatrician Dr. Paul Thomas Agrees with Robert De Niro: “Let’s Find Out The Truth” About Vaccines
Vaccine Damage, The Hidden Truth, by Jon Rapapport
India – Vaccine programs & vested interests, Jacob Puliyel MD
China’s Vaccine Scandal Threatens Public Faith in Immunization
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