Vaccine Choice Canada: Forty Years, One Message

It began in 1982 as a committee of Ontario parents asking for a school exemption. In November 2026 its verified X account called the childhood immunization schedule a “Pediatric Poisoning Schedule.” Here is Canada’s oldest anti-vaccine organization: where it came from, what it has fought for in the courts and the legislatures, and what it is telling Canadians now.

1. Where it came from

Vaccine Choice Canada (VCC) says it “continues the work of the Committee Against Compulsory Vaccination,” formed by Ontario parents in 1982 to protest the province’s new Immunization of School Pupils Act, which then had no exemption for conscience or religion. The committee met Ministry of Health officials in March 1984 and filed a brief that May. In December 1984 Ontario amended the Act to allow conscientious and religious exemptions, which remain in the law today.

Other accounts give a different starting point. Wikipedia’s history dates the organization to 1986 as the Association for Vaccine Damaged Children, founded by Edda West, renamed the Vaccination Risk Awareness Network (VRAN) in 1994, and renamed Vaccine Choice Canada in 2014. VCC’s own history page does not name its founders.

Edda West, based in British Columbia, was the face of VRAN for many years and still writes for alternative-health magazines. Today the public face is Ted Kuntz, VCC’s president. He runs a weekly online show, writes a Substack, and signs VCC’s member newsletter.

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2. Billboards, hearings and legislatures

3. In the courts

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More on Galati’s lawsuits for VCC, Action4Canada and Children’s Health Defense Canada is on the Action4Canada page and the CHD origins page.

4. What they are posting now

On 12 November 2026, VCC’s verified account on X posted this quotation from the American osteopath Sherri Tenpenny. Two hours later it had about 177,000 views and 228 replies.

Transcribed from screenshots taken on 12 November 2026. VCC’s account showed 19,500 posts at the time. Note the hashtag #HealthCanada: the post was aimed at the federal regulator’s audience.

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False “mRNA vaccines given to … newborn babies.” No mRNA vaccine is given to newborns in Canada. NACI’s COVID-19 guidance starts at 6 months of age. What newborns may receive in RSV season is nirsevimab, a monoclonal antibody: not a vaccine, and not mRNA. The RSV vaccine offered in pregnancy is a protein vaccine, not mRNA.

False “Deadly and unnecessary” in pregnancy. NACI lists pregnant people among those at increased risk of severe COVID-19 and strongly recommends they be immunized. A mother’s antibodies also protect her baby in the first months, before the baby can be vaccinated.

False Children “sometimes die from this systematic poisoning schedule.” This accuses doctors and nurses of routinely killing children. No evidence is offered, because there is none. What the record shows is the reverse: Canada lost its measles elimination status in November 2025, and unvaccinated children have died of measles in North America since.

Slogan “Pharma’s cash cow” and “Pediatric Poisoning Schedule.” These aren’t claims anyone can check. They are the language a Canadian organization now uses in public about the vaccines given to babies.

Bait and switch “Clean food won’t matter.” Nobody argues children should eat Froot Loops. The image borrows a reasonable worry about diet to sell an unreasonable one about vaccines.

5. Same voices, eleven years apart

In March 2015, during the measles scare that followed the Disneyland outbreak, an Ontario letter writer told the Guelph Mercury that Sherri Tenpenny, Suzanne Humphries and Russell Blaylock disagreed with mainstream doctors about vaccines (see Her reach in Ontario). In November 2026, VCC’s post quotes Sherri Tenpenny herself, calling the schedule poison and linking to her Substack.

6. VCC’s circle

Who Vaccine Choice Canada quotes, raises money for, works with, hires, and puts on stage. Each tick is documented in VCC’s own posts and newsletters or in news reports, all listed in the sources.

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A tick means only what its column says. Appearing in a VCC newsletter or at a VCC-sponsored event does not make someone a VCC member, and does not mean they endorse VCC. An empty cell means we found no record, not that no connection exists. Private donors are not listed. This table will grow as we document more; corrections are welcome.

7. What you can do

• Don’t share the post to mock it. Every quote-post adds to its reach. Share a fact-check instead, such as this page.
• Paid ads can be challenged. When a group buys billboards or print ads, Ad Standards Canada takes complaints about inaccurate or misleading ads. It upheld complaints against an anti-vaccine billboard in Edmonton in 2020.
• Lobbying is regulated. If a group is pressing MLAs or MPPs on a bill, check your province’s lobbyist registry, as CBC did in New Brunswick.
• Talk to your own doctor or public health unit about any vaccine question, and check claims against the sources in Where to Check Vaccine Facts.