(0:00 - 0:22) In Canada, there are 16 vaccines licenced for use in infancy. An 18-month-old baby can receive up to 43 doses of 16 vaccines if doses during pregnancy are included. New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, inject babies on the first day of life with the Hep B vaccine, which contains high levels of aluminium. (0:24 - 0:43) And virtually all newborns are injected with vitamin K, which may also contain aluminium. 24 common vaccines include aluminium. Mercury, which is also found in many vaccines, including seasonal flu vaccines, is the most toxic non-radioactive element known to man. (0:44 - 1:11) It's found in the MMR vaccines that we're told don't cause autism, and yet rates of autism have increased in direct proportion to increasing use of vaccines which contain mercury and other heavy metals. Both mercury and aluminium are so toxic that if you ever suggested to a doctor that you wanted to be injected with them, they would be horrified. Unless, of course, they're included in a vaccine. (1:13 - 1:53) All of the above information I've just told you, and much more, can be found in the excellent 2024 book, A New Parent's Guide to Understanding Vaccination, Informing Choice Through Education, written by Ted Kuntz, President of Vaccine Choice Canada. Ted joins me today to discuss his own heartbreaking experience with his son Josh, who passed away in 2017 at the age of 31 after spending his entire life severely disabled following a DPT vaccination when he was five months old. Ted's involvement with Vaccine Choice Canada and the many challenges we still face in bringing to Canadians informed consent. (1:54 - 2:29) The simple right to be fully informed of potential dangers before allowing themselves or their children to be injected with toxic substances, which can and do lead to tragic life-altering consequences. Ted, welcome to the show. Will, thanks. Thanks for inviting me. I've been looking forward to this conversation with you for some time. As have I. I've got to be honest, Ted, you've been on my list of people I've wanted to interview forever. (2:29 - 2:39) It's just you get busy and it's like, well, you're always there. And so I confess, I just started putting it off. And then we ran into each other finally in person at the Justice Centre recently. (2:40 - 2:56) And so, yes, it's a real pleasure to finally be able to talk to you and to bring this information to the viewers because it is such important information. Now, some of our viewers, my viewers, will certainly know who you are, the founder of Vaccine Choice Canada. But I know that a lot of them don't know your personal story and where it all started. (2:57 - 3:05) Would you please tell us about your son, Josh? Yeah, I'm glad to do that. Thanks for asking before. But I need to, I'm not the founder of Vaccine Choice Canada. (3:05 - 3:27) It existed long before I became aware of it. So I should probably make that correction. It began in 1982 and it was a group of parents that responded to the new legislation that was introduced in Ontario in 1982 that required vaccine mandates for kids to go to public school. (3:27 - 3:47) And the initial legislation had no provision for personal belief or religious exemptions. And so that group lobbied the Ontario government for two years. And in 1984, they were successful in having personal belief and religious exemptions included in the Act, in the Childhood Immunisation Act in Ontario. (3:48 - 3:59) And so I... Can I jump in there too? Because you've just told me something that I didn't know. Some of my viewers didn't either. There's been a lot of talk in the past few years about mandatory vaccines. (3:59 - 4:09) So if I understand what you're telling me, this isn't new that when they first did this in Ontario years ago, those vaccines were essentially mandatory for the children. That's right. That's right. (4:09 - 4:36) There was no provision to opt out of vaccination if you wanted your child to go to public school. And the ironic thing is it was introduced in 1982, the same year as our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The same time that they're introducing a charter that talks about things like bodily sovereignty and individual rights and freedoms, they introduce legislation that made the vaccination of your child mandatory. (4:37 - 5:00) And the challenge today, well, is that if you were to survey most parents in Ontario, actually most parents in Canada, they believe their children are required to be vaccinated in order to go to school. They don't promote the fact that legal exemptions exist. And the other fact that most parents don't know in Canada is there's only two provinces that have vaccine mandates. (5:00 - 5:10) That's Ontario and New Brunswick. Every other province, a simple no thank you is sufficient. But again, if you were to survey parents, they wouldn't know that. (5:11 - 5:23) Right. And you do have the Vaccine Choice Canada website to have information on exemptions and the forms and all of that for them so people can go there to get that. So that brings us to Josh. (5:23 - 5:32) And thank you for correcting me about the founder of VCC. I honestly thought you were. So if I didn't know that, I'm sure some of the viewers didn't know that either. (5:32 - 5:47) Yeah. And I'm often referred to as the founder and I need to make that correction because there was just a dedicated group of parents that really were the forefront of this 43 years ago. And they need to be honoured. (5:47 - 5:58) And I think at some point they need to be celebrated for the work that they've done to address the harms of vaccine injury in this country. Yes. But now we can talk about Josh. (5:58 - 6:16) That was something that happened almost 50 years ago, if I'm doing the math right. Josh was born in 1984 and he reacted to his very first vaccine shot, which was the DPT shot. And immediately we saw a change in our son. (6:16 - 6:34) And what I often say when I describe Josh's journey is that the son that we brought home from the doctor's office that day was not the same child we took to the doctor's office. We had a changed child. And he went from being a very content, happy baby, easily breastfed. (6:35 - 6:52) We were absolutely delighted at the health of this child to a very discontent baby that was struggling, having difficulty sleeping. We actually took him to the doctor twice in the next two weeks to say, there's something wrong. And it happened right after the vaccine shot. (6:52 - 6:57) And of course that was immediately dismissed. There's nothing to worry about. Vaccines are safe and effective. (6:58 - 7:08) And we were just literally sent home. And on day 21, after the vaccine shot, Josh had his first ground mile seizure. And it was about 25 minutes long. (7:08 - 7:15) And I actually didn't know what it was. All of a sudden my son is convulsing. He's stiff. (7:15 - 7:22) He's turning blue. And I just panicked. We called the ambulance to come and take him to hospital. (7:23 - 7:34) And they checked him over and they said, he probably had a febrile seizure, nothing to worry about. Sometimes this happens. And they sent us home. (7:34 - 7:45) And I just thought, great, everything's okay. But a month later, he had a second ground mile seizure. And again, it was about 25 minutes long. (7:45 - 8:02) And that scared me more than the first one because the first one, I didn't really know what was happening. The second one, I realised there's something significantly wrong with my son. And the journey with Josh was that he continued to seize on a monthly basis. (8:03 - 8:14) And then the seizures began to increase in frequency. And by the time he was four, he was seizing 12 to 15 times a day. And each of those seizures were 15 to 20 minutes long. (8:14 - 8:31) And we literally lived out of Children's Hospital in Vancouver for the first five years of his life. We had made a decision never to leave him alone. So his mom would take him or would be with him during the day in the hospital. (8:31 - 8:37) And then I would be at work. And then I would drive straight from work to Vancouver Children's Hospital. And I would spend the night with him. (8:38 - 8:52) Much to the dismay and resistance of the hospital, they did not want me there. And then I would shower at the hospital and I would drive to work the next day. And so I wasn't in my own home for weeks at a time. (8:53 - 9:03) It was a gruelling time. And then about the time that Josh was five, the chief neurologist took me aside one day. And he said, Ted, please don't bring your son back to hospital. (9:04 - 9:12) And I said, why not? And he said, we can't do anything for your son. And they had literally tried everything. We tried every anti-seizure medication. (9:12 - 9:19) We tried some experimental medications. We even did some things. I look back and I'm horrified by what I allowed to happen to my son. (9:20 - 9:28) One of the things they did is they inserted a device into his chest cavity. It's called the vagus nerve stimulator. And there's a vagus nerve that runs up the neck. (9:28 - 9:44) And they wrap wires around that vagus nerve. And that pack that was embedded into his chest sends off a charge like every 30 seconds. And somehow the idea is getting the brain used to unusual electrical activity or some such theory. (9:45 - 9:56) And we allowed that to happen for about a year before we finally insisted that they turn the device off. But it was an ugly, ugly time. I was struggling. (9:56 - 10:00) I was in despair. I was angry. I was scared. (10:01 - 10:11) I thought my son would die in front of my eyes. And I don't wish that for any parent. The hospital completely denied it had anything to do with vaccines. (10:12 - 10:21) But what was interesting is that I was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia at the time. And so I had access to the medical library. So I did my own research. (10:21 - 10:44) And what I discovered was there were all kinds of studies that showed that the DPT shot was causing seizure disorders and death in infants. And that product was eventually removed from the market in Canada because of the neurological injury. And yet, you know, supposedly the best doctors in childcare in Canada were telling me it had nothing to do with the vaccine. (10:44 - 10:58) And that was really when I began to lose my confidence in our medical system. Now, you've taken us up to the point where Josh was five years of age, where you've been told, don't bring him back to the hospital because we can't help. Well, at the same time, they're saying it had nothing to do with the vaccines. (10:59 - 11:04) So where did that leave you in terms of support for your son? Was there any assistance from the government?