
Teresa Pierre
Parents As First Educators
The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is now reaching out to target children as young as 12 in Canada. These children do not require parental consent to get the shot. While many of us are unaware of it, there is no national age of medical consent in Canada.
Quebec, where parental consent is needed for those under 14 for medical decisions, is the only province to have established one. Some jurisdictions in Ontario, such as York region, require parental consent for children under 13. Others, such as Peel and Toronto, aren’t requiring parents to provide consent.
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Much has been written on this topic and it would be difficult to summarize it all in one short article. Policies differ from place to place and so is social dynamic. I have been following the “pandemic”, the stats, the restrictions, the related requirements, and the official policies in several countries but here I would like to focus on Canada and the province of Ontario.





