Update September 14, 2020
‘He can do what he wants’: Higgs, New Brunswick Tories are in control after snap election – Global News
Update September 1, 2020
Parent hopes mandatory COVID-19 vaccination bill becomes election issue – Education Minister Dominic Cardy’s mandatory measles vaccination bill was defeated 22-20 in June
New Brunswick Mandatory Vaccine Bill 39 Legal Opinion – A Threat to Liberty and Bodily Autonomy: Compelling Individuals to Choose Between Vaccinations and Public Education Submissions on Bill 39: An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization Brief to the Standing Committee on Law Amendments
Video and audio recordings from the New Brunswick Bill 39 Mandatory Vaccine Hearings August 27-29, 2019 and Bill 11 protests and videos – from the Nova Scotia Alternative Autism Awareness
Update July 7, 2020
VCC Thanks New Brunswick MLAs Who Voted Against Mandatory Vaccination Bill 11
Update June 27, 2020
Diane Doucet on the successful defeat of Bill 11 in New Brunswick – Diane Doucet with Ted Kuntz from Vaccine Choice Canada and lawyer Rocco Galati – 10 minute video
Update June 26, 2020
Bill forcing parents to vaccinate their kids to attend school fails to pass in Canadian province – The bill would have removed religious and philosophical exemptions as reasons a parent could opt their children out of vaccination programs. – LifeSiteNews.com
Update June 24, 2020
Green MLAs hit with ‘social media storm’ following vaccination bill abstentions – Controversial Bill 11 defeated 22-20 after 3 Green MLAs abstain from vote
Chris Harrigan’s YouTube Channel has videos from the Bill 11 protests in Fredericton, NB.
Update June 23, 2020
‘Their views are unacceptable in 2020,’ N.B. education minister says of anti-vaxxers – CTV News – “He says there won’t be a second bill, saying his colleagues have spoken, but it won’t stop him from confronting the issue, on social media or otherwise.”
Dominic Cardy’s behaviour is reprehensible – Kevin Vickers, Leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party
Green party abdicates responsibility on Bill 11 vote – New Brunswick Liberal Party
Update June 18, 2020
Bill 11 was defeated.
Mandatory vaccination bill defeated 22-20 – Bill sought to remove religious, philosophical exemptions for schoolchildren – CBC
New Brunswick’s mandatory vaccination bill voted down – Global News – “On Thursday, the motion was defeated by a close margin of 22-19.”
Greens abstain from Bill-11 vote – Green Party of New Brunswick
CTV News interview with Dominic Cardy who states it is intention to keep fighting
Update June 17, 2020
Mandatory vaccination bill ready for final legislature vote – Bill seeks to remove religious, philosophical exemptions for school children
**UPDATE** Bill 11 has been passed by the Committee – vote in the full house *possible* tomorrow June 18, 2020.
STATUS OF BILL HERE (including link to amendment).
View CBC Twitter thread of the Committee here.
MLAs vote to drop notwithstanding clause from mandatory vaccination bill – Contentious legislation seeks to remove religious, philosophical exemptions for school children – CBC – “A committee of MLAs has voted to remove the controversial notwithstanding clause from a bill on mandatory vaccinations.”
Update June 13, 2020
Fredericton Protest 2 against Bill 11 June 9th 2020 – 44:25 video
More videos see Chris Harrigan’s YouTube Page.
Update June 9, 2020
Much-anticipated mandatory vaccination debate begins in N.B. legislature – Review of contentious Bill 11 extended into Wednesday – CBC
The Third Session of the 59th Legislative Assembly stands adjourned until Tuesday, June 9, 2020.
NB Legislative Assembly – WITHDRAW BILL 11 with or without the “notwithstanding” clause – for New Brunswick citizens – Change.org
Say No To Bill 11 – New Brunswick Residents have their say! 3:26 video
Update May 27, 2020
PC ministers spar over vaccination bill, but debate unexpectedly delayed – Attorney General Andrea Anderson-Mason voiced discomfort with Education Minister Dominic Cardy’s bill – “‘It would be impossible to have proper debate on this bill without his presence, so committee was delayed until next Tuesday [June 2],’ said Caraquet Liberal MLA Isabelle Thériault.”
Update May 26, 2020
Bill 11 was referred to the Standing Committee on Economic Policy which sat May 26 and will also sit on May 27. Third reading for could potentially be held on May 28. For Legislative Calendar Click Here. Bill 11 status here Watch the legislature online here https://www.gnb.ca/legis/index-e.asp Click Webcasts.**
Mandatory vaccinations among issues for debate in N.B. legislature – Global News
Update May 23, 2020
Ted Kuntz’s Appeal to New Brunswick MLAs re: Bill 11 Vote – Sent via Courier – delivered to the NB Legislature May 22, 2020
Update May 13, 2020
Cardy hopes to pass contentious vaccination bill by summer – Education minister optimistic COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness of importance of vaccines – CBC
Update May 12, 2020
New Brunswick Bill 11 Letter – Denial of Equal Access to Public Education – Copy and personalize for your MLA
Update May 6, 2020
On May 5, 2020 – this was to be the day that the NB legislature would return to sit for one day – New Brunswick residents held a protest in front of the legislature.
The next day scheduled for the legislature to sit is May 26, 2020
Update April 2020
To Members of the New Brunswick Legislature re: Bill 11 From Ted Kuntz – Package was sent via Canada Post on April 14, 2020
Update March 11, 2020
Bill 11 passed 2nd reading in the New Brunswick Legislature on March 11, 2020. You can view the video here – start at 4:00:00. The Bill was referred to the Standing Committee on Economic Policy. For Legislative Calendar Click Here. Bill 11 status here Watch the legislature online here https://www.gnb.ca/legis/index-e.asp Click Webcasts.**
New Brunswick Mandatory Vaccine Bill 39 Legal Opinion – A Threat to Liberty and Bodily Autonomy: Compelling Individuals to Choose Between Vaccinations and Public Education Submissions on Bill 39: An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization Brief to the Standing Committee on Law Amendments
Consent or Coercion? – Prepared for Members of NB Legislature (pdf)
Update December 19, 2019
Vaccination is Not Immunization – Why Bill 11 Should Be Defeated – letter to David Coon, MLA and Leader of the New Brunswick Green Party from Ted Kuntz
Update December 11, 2019
A Parent’s Appeal to New Brunswick MLAs on Bill 11 – e-mail was sent to individual New Brunswick MLAs by VCC on December 10, 2019.
Update December 9, 2019
Dear NB School Superintendents, Trustees, Principals and Teachers re: Bill 11 – includes MS Word document to personalize
Update November 28, 2019
Update and Call to Action to members on New Brunswick Bill 11 An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization and the NS & PEI Call for Mandates
Update November 27, 2019
Mandatory-vaccination bill could be in trouble over suspension of charter rights – Bill would eliminate religious and philosophical exemptions from current public school vaccine policy – “A bill to toughen mandatory-vaccination rules for schoolchildren looked to be in trouble on Wednesday as more MLAs spoke out against its use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to forestall legal challenges. Three People’s Alliance MLAs said they may not support the bill because of the inclusion of the clause, which leader Kris Austin called a “nuclear button” that should be used only rarely. The bill introduced last week by Education Minister Dominic Cardy would eliminate religious and philosophical exemptions to the policy of forcing children attending public schools to be vaccinated. Including the notwithstanding clause would allow the law to override 10 sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including those that guarantee freedom of religion. ‘I think the inclusion of that is an admission that they’re violating somebody’s rights,’ Alliance MLA Rick DeSaulniers told reporters. ‘It’s really quite simple. It’s obvious.’ … Premier Blaine Higgs confirmed DeSaulniers’s analysis when he told reporters that government lawyers concluded the bill would violate charter rights and would be struck down if it didn’t include the notwithstanding clause. ‘It’s something I would have preferred not to utilize,’ Higgs said, but the legal advice was ‘that we’d be challenged and ultimately lose’ in court without the clause.”
Update November 25, 2019
2nd reading is possible any time (Bill 11 is on the order paper, but it is up to the government when second reading is). You can watch online here https://www.gnb.ca/legis/index-e.asp Click Webcasts.
Update November 22, 2019
Bill 11 First Reading – An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization
Text of BILL 11 – An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization
New Brunswick uses notwithstanding clause in 2nd bid to pass vaccination bill – Move would ward off court challenges to controversial mandatory immunization legislation – “New Brunswick’s education minister is making rare use of the Canadian Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to ensure his new legislation on mandatory vaccinations won’t be overturned by court challenges. Dominic Cardy introduced the bill, his second attempt to eliminate non-medical exemptions to vaccination rules, in the legislature on Friday morning. Section 4 of the bill says the legislation is “declared to operate notwithstanding” 10 provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That means the bill can’t be struck down by the courts even if it contravenes those sections of the charter. Among those sections are provisions that protect freedom of religion and equal rights regardless of religion.”
Update November 20, 2019
First Report of the Standing Committee on Law Amendments Third Session 59th Legislative Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick November 20, 2019 (pdf) – “The report is the result of your Committee’s deliberations on Bill 39, An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization.”
Next vaccination bill won’t back down from dropping non-medical exemptions, Cardy says – Premier Blaine Higgs hinted Tuesday non-medical exemptions could be considered – “Education Minister Dominic Cardy says a revised bill on mandatory vaccinations for schoolchildren won’t be a retreat from his goal of eliminating non-medical exemptions. Cardy said Wednesday the legislation should be introduced by the end of next week and will still put an end to the ability of parents to exempt their children from vaccinations on religious and philosophical grounds.”
Dominic Cardy scrums, says new vaccination bill described by Higgs as "a little different" is not a retreat. All non-medical exemptions will be gone; the "process" Higgs spoke of will be to ensure medical exemptions are actually for valid medical reasons.
— Jacques Poitras (@poitrasCBC) November 20, 2019
Update October 25, 2019
New Brunswick throne speech will delay mandatory vaccination bill – A new session of the legislature opens in November, which means the bill will die on the order paper
Update October 1, 2019
Transcripts of the New Brunswick Standing Committee on Law Amendments meetings.
August 27, 2019 (pdf)
August 28, 2019 (pdf)
August 29, 2019 (pdf)
Update September 8, 2019
New Brunswick Mandatory Vaccine Bill 39 Legal Opinion – A Threat to Liberty and Bodily Autonomy: Compelling Individuals to Choose Between Vaccinations and Public Education Submissions on Bill 39: An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization Brief to the Standing Committee on Law Amendments
The Standing Committee on Law Amendments met in the Legislative Council Chamber August 27-29, 2019
Audio Archive – Standing Committee on Law Amendments – Tuesday August 27, 2019 Length 6:36:17
https://www1.gnb.ca/legis/webcasts/archive/view-e.asp?event=130&lang=en
Audio Archive – Standing Committee on Law Amendments – August 28, 2019 Length 6:41:51
https://www1.gnb.ca/legis/webcasts/archive/view-e.asp?event=131&lang=en
Audio Archive – Standing Committee on Law Amendments – August 29, 2019 Length 5:43:58
https://www1.gnb.ca/legis/webcasts/archive/view-e.asp?event=132&lang=en
Update September 2, 2019
VCC Advocates for Medical Freedom in New Brunswick – Includes audio and text of Ted Kuntz’s presentation to the Committee.
Bill 39 Dialogue presented by Concerned Citizens of New Brunswick August 27th 2019 – 2 hour video including Dr. Robert Sears, Dr. Meryl Nass, James Lyons-Weiler, PhD., James Kitchen and Dr. Dena Churchill DC
Nova Scotia Alternative Autism Awareness created YouTube audio recordings from the New Brunswick Bill 39 Mandatory Vaccine Committee Hearing speakers
Why are legislatures imposing vaccine mandates now? My testimony to the New Brunswick, Canada legislature on August 27, 2019 – Meryl Nass MD
Update August 12, 2019 – VCC’s July 25 letter and package to Norman Bossé, Q.C., New Brunswick Child and Youth Advocate
July 29, 2019 – VCC’s June/July 2019 V-Bulletin – includes segment on New Brunswick Education Minister justifies plan to ban children from school
Update July 22, 2019 – New Resources are available below, including an MLA package – Click here.
New Brunswick Bill 39 – An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization
Information on how to make a submission or appear before the Standing Committee August 27-29:
https://www.gnb.ca/legis/Promos/Public_Hearings/39/index-e.asp
Standing Committee on Law Amendments
Notice of Public Hearings and Call for Briefs
An Act Respecting
Proof of Immunization (Bill 39)
The Standing Committee on Law Amendments, an all-party committee of the Legislative Assembly, is seeking public input on Bill 39, An Act Respecting Proof of Immunization.
The purpose of Bill 39 is to remove non-medical exemptions from the mandatory immunization requirements for public school and licensed early learning and child care admissions. The Bill requires students attending public schools and children in licensed early learning and child care facilities to provide either proof of immunization or a medical exemption on a form signed by a medical professional.
The Committee seeks your input through public hearings with respect to the issues raised by Bill 39. The public hearings will be held in the Legislative Council Chamber of the Legislative Assembly building in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Individuals or organizations from the legal or medical profession are invited to appear on August 27. Individuals or organizations representing parent groups or the teaching profession are invited to appear on August 28. All others are invited to appear on August 29.
If you wish to appear on Bill 39, please notify the Office of the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly by phone [(506) 453-2506] or email by August 7, 2019. Those not wishing to appear are invited to submit a written brief by email by September 6, 2019.
July 11, 2019 – New Brunswickers invited to comment on two legislative proposals – News Release – Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
On June 7, 2019 the New Brunswick Legislature passed the First Reading of Act Respecting Proof of Immunization, which “would remove non-medical exemptions from the mandatory immunization requirements for public school and licensed early learning and child care admissions. The amendments are to the Education Act and the Public Health Act.”
Press Release from the New Brunswick government.
CBC – New Brunswick moves toward mandatory immunization for students – Legislative amendments introduced Friday would remove all non-medical exemptions
June 11, 2019 – Second Reading did not pass – bill was debated and referred to Standing Committee on Law Amendments – view archived webcast here (see 1:03:30 to 1:07:00 and again at 1:15:00)
Resources, letter ideas, MLA contact information below.
Dear New Brunswick Parents and Residents,
Thank you for standing strong and being warriors in the battle to protect our rights and freedoms. As all of you are aware, our right to parental decision-making, therapeutic choice, informed consent, and bodily sovereignty are all being threatened by the intention of the current New Brunswick government to “remove non-medical exemptions from the mandatory immunization requirements for public school and licensed early learning and child care admissions. The amendments are to the Education Act and the Public Health Act.”
This is Not A Medical Issue
This is a critical time in the evolution of our society. The for-profit medical industry and corporate controlled media would have you believe that we face a dire threat of deadly infectious diseases unless each and every one of our children are fully vaccinated. This is not true. This fear mongering is a distortion of the risk. There is no medical justification for imposing vaccine mandates. And the risk of vaccine injury is completely ignored by our medical industry and governments.
Whether you are a parent who has confidence in the vaccine paradigm, or one who is questioning the claims of ‘safety and effectiveness’, what we all can agree on is that, as citizens of a free country and as parents, we ought to have the right to choose. Vaccines have known risks, including death. Where there is risk, there must be choice.
These efforts to impose medical decisions upon individuals and families is not isolated to New Brunswick. In fact, there is a global movement that is well-funded and well organized by the medical industry to deprive citizens around the world of their right to choose. Right now, there are protests in many countries – Italy, Poland, Australia, United States and India demanding protection of our right to choose and bodily sovereignty.
This is a Civil Rights Issue
This is not a medical issue. This is a civil rights issue. This is the largest and most important civil rights issue since the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960’s, and the movement to give women the right to vote. The impact of this civil rights movement affects every human on the planet. The medical industry is actively committed to removing our right to say ‘no’ to unwanted medical interventions that carry risk. This, by an industry that carries no legal liability for the harm, injuries and deaths caused by their products.
Unfortunately, our politicians are acting in ways that are eroding our rights rather than protecting them from greedy and morally corrupt corporations. And our mainstream and social media have been fully captured by the corporate agenda and financing and can no longer be trusted to tell us the truth. This is why a movement of parents is so critical.
Educate and Insist
With this letter are a number of documents to assist you to take a stand. Some of documents we encourage you to print and deliver personally to your MLA. We will start with an education strategy. We will demand that our MLAs support our right to informed consent, therapeutic choice, parental rights and bodily sovereignty. We will let them know, in very clear language, that if he or she does not stand behind our right to choose, that we will do all we can to have them removed from office.
Civil Disobedience May be Needed
We also need to be prepared to exercise non-violent civil disobedience. Whenever we go along with a law or requirement that is legally and morally wrong, we give validity to that law or requirement. Our greatest power is in not going along with what is wrong.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty
when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
– Mahatma Gandhi
We appreciate that in the short-term this may create discomfort and chaos. However, we need to refuse to go along with dictates and demands that are illegal and immoral. Ontario parents have figured out after two years of ‘education sessions’, forced affidavits, and school suspensions that they must not go along. Parents are now refusing to attend education sessions, sign affidavits, and are continuing to send their children to school even when they have received a notice of suspension.
This is a time to stand up, be brave and claim our power as parents. We need to ensure the bullying tactics of the for-profit medical industry do not succeed. Don’t count on our politicians or media to fight this battle for us. Each of us must be willing to step up and say – ‘I do not consent’. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.
Thank you for your courage and your leadership.
Sincerely,
Vaccine Choice Canada
Vaccine Action Ideas
Questions to Ask Your MLA?
Key Messages
Strategy
Potential Allies:
Additional Resources:
Documents for New Brunswick residents to present to their MLA:
Consent or Coercion? – Prepared for Members of NB Legislature (pdf)
**NEW** New Brunswick Vaccine Schedule 1983 vs. 2020 (pdf)
Covering letter for you to personalize to your MLA. (MS Word doc format)
Questions for Canada’s Chief Medical Officer (pdf) for you to include in your MLA package.
Form letter to New Brunswick Legislators on Mandatory Vaccination – includes .docx file for you to personalize and includes e-mail addresses for all 49 MLAs in New Brunswick
VCC’s letter to Dominic Cardy and to all New Brunswick MLAs
New Brunswick Resident’s Appeal to MLAs on Mandatory Vaccination Vote
**NEW** Vaccines Given to New Brunswick Children Prenatal-18 Years – can be printed as postcard, poster, etc.
Measles in Canada – March 2019 (pdf)
An Open Letter to Legislators Currently Considering Vaccine Legislation from Tetyana Obukhanych PhD (pdf)
How to Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy (pdf)
Open Letter from International Organisations to the WHO on the Issue of Vaccine Safety (pdf)
18 Facts About Vaccine Risk (pdf)
Dear NB School Superintendents, Trustees, Principals and Teachers re: Bill 11 – includes MS Word document to personalize
Find your MLA here.
E-mail addresses for New Brunswick MLA’s (June 2019)
gilles.lepage@gnb.ca
guy.arseneault@gnb.ca
daniel.guitard@gnb.ca
brian.kenny@gnb.ca
denis.landry2@gnb.ca
isabelle.theriault@gnb.ca
robert.gauvin@gnb.ca
keith.chiasson@gnb.ca
lisa.harris@gnb.ca
michelle.conroy@gnb.ca
jake.stewart@gnb.ca
kevin.a.arseneau@gnb.ca
benoit.bourque@gnb.ca
jacques.j.leblanc@gnb.ca
megan.mitton@gnb.ca
roger.l.melanson@gnb.ca
monique.a.leblanc@gnb.ca
robert.mckee@gnb.ca
cathy.rogers@gnb.ca
ernie.steeves@gnb.ca
sherry.wilson@gnb.ca
bruce.fitch@gnb.ca
mike.holland@gnb.ca
ross.wetmore@gnb.ca
bruce.northrup@gnb.ca
gary.crossman@gnb.ca
blaine.higgs@gnb.ca
hugh.flemming@gnb.ca
glen.savoie@gnb.ca
trevor.holder@gnb.ca
gerry.lowe@gnb.ca
dorothy.shephard@gnb.ca
bill.oliver@gnb.ca
andrea.andersonmason@gnb.ca
mary.wilson@gnb.ca
kris.austin@gnb.ca
jeff.carr@gnb.ca
david.coon@gnb.ca
stephen.horsman@gnb.ca
rick.desaulniers@gnb.ca
dominic.cardy@gnb.ca
carl.urquhart@gnb.ca
stewart.fairgrieve@gnb.ca
andrew.harvey@gnb.ca
chuck.chiasson@gnb.ca
jean-claude.d’amours@gnb.ca
francine.landry@gnb.ca
kevin.vickers@gnb.ca
