Ontario's "Immunization of School Pupils Act" Charade - Gaslighting Going Strong Since 1982

Eerie reminiscent of all the Covid gaslighting and law "bending" we went through just recently. Oh, Canada!..

If you thought you lived in a law-and-order, “civilized” country, have a closer look at the “implementation” of Ontario’s “Immunization of School Pupils Act”, originally passed in 1982 — same year the Canadian “Charter of Rights and Freedoms” has been passed, with a great pomp, federally. I will briefly recap some of the devious history of the former, based on this excellent video presentation from Vaccine Choice Canada:

• Right off the bat, this “Act” clashed with a Federal Act that purportedly is a constituent element of Canadian Constitution, as it mandated pupil vaccination.

• Immediately, it was contested in courts as unconstitutional. Yet, the Ontario Government “settled” out of court by amending the Act to allow for conscientious or religious exemptions from any vaccination in 1984.

• As such, the Act became an empty law, mandating nothing in particular, a legal Potemkin village, that is still being “enforced”, to this day, by Ontario Health and Ontario Ministry of Education, with courts playing along, doing their best to gaslight the parents into believing that immunizations of their children are somehow “required” to attend school, lest the kids get “suspended” (more on it below) from attending school until the matter is resolved to authorities’ satisfaction.

• To exercise their right to a non-medical exemption, the parents are made to:

  • Watch the Vaccine Education Video about vaccines and exemptions for school-age children.

  • Answer quiz questions and complete form to get your vaccine education certificate.

  • Print education certificate.

  • Print and complete the Statement of Conscience or Religious Belief Form for school-age children and take the completed form to a Commissioner of Oaths to have it signed. One form is needed for each child that needs an exemption.

  • The affidavit must be signed and stamped by a Commissioner of Oath (Fees may apply).

  • Return the original signed copy of the Statement of Conscience or Religious Belief Affidavit and the education certificate to the health unit.

• In addition to framing the right as a privilege (by jumping through the hoops above), the preamble to the signed affidavit included self-deprecating and self-incriminating statements to the effect that parents understand that by not immunizing their child they are causing harm to their child or to others. Many parents refused to sing such affidavits or crossed out those passages (see the video from Vaccine Choice Canada for details).

• How does a kid get suspended from school for the lack of proper “documentation of immunization”? The "Immunization of School Pupils Act" does not give the medical authorities this right. The only person that can suspend a kid from school is a school’s Principal, and only based on the rights and reasons given to him/her by the Ontario’s Education Act. And the suspension of a pupil for not sharing the immunization information (let alone not getting a jab) is not on the books. Therefore, all pupil suspensions by school Principals under the guise of “Immunization of School Pupils Act” have been unlawful for many decades.

• Notwithstanding the illegality of pupil suspensions and coercions, the Ontario courts have been hosting ( and continue to host) unlawful sham “proceedings” initiated by Ontario Health against parents that would not jump through the hoops and contest their child’s suspension(s) from school. Again, watch the video from Vaccine Choice Canada for hair-raising details.

So, what do we have as a result? The Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Ministry of Education, Ontario courts and Ontario’s police force all colluding in breaking the laws of the land and coercing parents into immunizing their children. And it still goes strong, “Suspension letters issued to more than 1,600 Simcoe Muskoka students with outdated immunization records” (CTV News, 2023.09.26):

Hundreds of secondary students with outdated immunization records were sent school suspension letters from the health unit this week.

The Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit (SMDHU) announced it issued suspension orders to 1,623 students in Grades 11 and 12 due to missing or incomplete vaccination records, affidavits, or medical exemptions.

The action comes in accordance with the Immunization of Schools Pupils Act (ISPA), which mandates that public health units maintain accurate vaccine records for all students attending school.

Under the provisions of ISPA, public health units are required to enforce suspensions for students whose vaccination information is incomplete or missing to prevent the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases within the school environment.

Grade 11 and 12 students are required to receive nine vaccines, including tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and meningococcal, "which 2006 and 2007 need to have up to date for school…"

Information on vaccination requirements, clinic locations, and scheduling is available on the SMDHU's website(opens in a new tab) or by contacting the health unit directly.

Now, if we sit back and reflect on the Covid-era edicts and mandates by governments and businesses, small and large, we come to a conclusion that we’ve been living in a banana republic with banana laws and banana rights for the last 41 years. Without us, with few exceptions, making much fuss about it. It was someone else’s problem (the parents left to fend off for their kids on their own against all the repressive machinery of the state brought to bear). Until it became everyone’s problem, and continues to be, in face of a relentless push to subdue us into kissing our bodily autonomy good-bye. For start.

Where do we go from here? Eat ze bugs?