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Ontario To Host School Vaccination Clinics Without Parental Consent (www.kawartha411.ca)

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– RightOfSask 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

It is legal. We have something called "Mature Minor Consent".

https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthlinkbc-files/infants-act-mature-minor-consent-and-immunization

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– RightOfSask 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

It's not different in Ontario. The "attaining 16 years of age" you read in the Health Care Consent act is in regard to people being admitted to a care facility and not in regard to people receiving treatment.

For just treatment there is no legal minimum age for consent in Ontario.

https://jcb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Bioethics-Table-Brief-Vaccinating-Ontarians-Aged-12-17-Legal-and-Ethical-Requirements.pdf

"Treatment’ in the HCCA includes anything done for a therapeutic, preventive, palliative, diagnostic, cosmetic or other health-related purpose, and therefore includes vaccination"

"There is no age of consent for treatment in Ontario. All persons in Ontario who have decision-making capacity have the right to make decisions about vaccination, including 12-17 year-olds."

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– RightOfSask 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Here are the requirement to give consent to a treatment according to the HCCA:

https://imgur.com/SfbBV0P.png

No mention of age.

The "16 years" is a limit for giving consent on incapable person's behalf:

https://imgur.com/ZUuUQy2.png

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