93% of Vaccine Injury Claims Denied.
Courts Closing the Door.
Hartman v. Canada (AG) — Ontario Court of Appeal item 24102. Sean Hartman, 17, died three weeks after his Pfizer mRNA vaccine. The trial court ruled Canadians injured by government pandemic policy have no private law duty of care. The only alternative — the federal Vaccine Injury Support Program — has approved 234 of 3,317 claims (7%) while spending $33.7M on administration versus $16.9M to injured Canadians. Statistics Canada: under-65s are 30% of excess deaths but only 10% of COVID deaths. The accountability loop is closed.
data/vaccine_accountability_timeline.json for the latest pending event…
The numbers (primary sources only)
(as of 2025-06-01)
appeals after denial
for program overhead
(half the admin budget)
Jan–Feb 2022 (16.8% above expected)
(vs. 10% of COVID deaths)
Sources: Government of Canada Question Period Note HC-2025-QP-0014 (VISP statistics, as of 2025-06-01); Global News investigation (Oxaro contract breakdown); Statistics Canada provisional death counts Oct 2023 release (excess mortality); Statistics Canada age-stratified mortality analysis.
The Hartman case — a father's suit at the Ontario Court of Appeal
Case: Hartman v. Canada (Attorney General)
Court of Appeal for Ontario — item 24102. Appeal heard January 26, 2026. Plaintiff: Dan Hartman (father). Plaintiff counsel: Umar Sheikh. Defendants: Attorney General of Canada, Pfizer Canada, Health Canada.
"There is no private law duty of care to individual members of the public injured by government core policy decisions in the handling of health emergencies which impact the general population."Source: Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruling, reported by Western Standard, CTV News affiliates, CBC News affiliates, and Children's Health Defense Canada.
Legal implication
If the Ontario Court of Appeal upholds the trial decision, Canadian law will hold that individuals injured by mass government health-emergency policy have no private law claim against the government. The only remaining recourse is the federal Vaccine Injury Support Program — which, as the next section documents, has approved 7% of claims.
The VISP failure — named claimants, named outcomes
Global News investigation (2024) documented specific claimants and their outcomes. Every case below is a real Canadian, on the record.
Sean Hartman (deceased, age 17) DEATH APPEAL PENDING 32+ MONTHS
Injury: Death, September 17 2021, 21 days after Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine.
Province: Ontario (Beeton).
Pathology: Dr. Ryan Cole (United States) examined tissue samples; findings supported vaccine-related cause of death.
VISP status: Claim not approved. Father Dan Hartman filed appeal May 2023; still awaiting decision 32+ months later.
Stephen MacDougall (deceased) DEATH APPROVED
Injury: Vaccine-related myopericarditis — death.
VISP status: Approved; widow Kimberly received the maximum death-benefit payout (approximately 3 years' salary).
Note: Grief therapy funding was capped at 15 sessions at $100/visit.
Becky Campbell REJECTED
Injury: Unspecified illness. Her own physician stated the illness was "most likely related" to the vaccine.
VISP status: Rejected despite the treating physician's medical opinion.
Mike Becker DENIED
Injury: Deep vein thrombosis; hospitalized 9 days post-vaccination.
VISP status: Denied.
Kayla Pollock STUCK 3 YEARS
Injury: Unspecified vaccine injury.
VISP status: Application has been stuck in the "intake" phase for 3 years — never assessed on the merits.
Ross Wightman (British Columbia) $270K APPROVED 20+ MONTH DELAY
Injury: Severe post-vaccine neurological injury.
VISP status: Approved for $270,000 in 2022; waited 20+ months for income replacement payment. Passed through 10 different case managers.
"A dumpster fire." — Ross Wightman, quoted in Global News
The financial architecture of denial
Oxaro Inc. (formerly Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Consulting) is the private contractor administering VISP. Oxaro received $50.6 million in federal funding. Of that:
• $33.7M (67%) went to administration.
• $16.9M (33%) went to injured Canadians.
For every $1 paid to an injured Canadian, $1.99 was spent on administration.
Canada is the only major Western jurisdiction to outsource its vaccine compensation program to a private contractor. The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany all run government-operated programs.
On April 1, 2026, the federal government took direct control of the program, rebranding it as the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program (VIAP), citing "backlog and mismanagement concerns."
Source: Global News investigation, "Canada set up a $50M vaccine injury program. Those harmed say it's failing them" (globalnews.ca/news/11247648); Government of Canada QP Note HC-2025-QP-0014.
CAEFISS — the government's own confirmed safety signals
The Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization Surveillance System (CAEFISS) is the Public Health Agency of Canada's post-market vaccine safety monitoring system. It has confirmed two safety signals for COVID-19 vaccines.
Signal 1: Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS)
Blood clots combined with abnormally low platelet count. Vaccines implicated: AstraZeneca/Covishield and Janssen (adenoviral vector). Confirmed by PHAC following international detection.
Signal 2: Myocarditis / pericarditis (mRNA vaccines)
Inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) or the lining around the heart (pericarditis). Vaccines implicated: Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — the mRNA products. PHAC's own statement:
"Data in Canada now indicating a higher number of cases in younger people (less than 40 years of age) than would normally be expected in this age group in the general population."
The actual numbers — from PHAC's own dashboard
As of the January 19, 2024 cutoff (data through December 3, 2023), Canada's Public Health Agency reports the following to the Canadian public:
| Metric | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Total doses administered | 105,016,456 | Canada, all products |
| Total AEFI reports | 58,712 | Adverse Events Following Immunization |
| Serious AEFI reports | 11,702 | Classified as "serious" per Brighton definitions |
| Serious AEFI rate | 11.1 / 100,000 doses | Government of Canada's own figure |
| Myocarditis / pericarditis (confirmed) | 1,231 | Brighton certainty levels 1–3 |
| Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS) | 89 | Brighton certainty levels 1–3 |
| Reported deaths after vaccination | 488 | PHAC: 4 classified "consistent with causal association to immunization" |
Myocarditis / pericarditis — by vaccine product
Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty: 725
Moderna Spikevax: 465
AstraZeneca Vaxzevria/COVISHIELD: 18
Janssen JCOVDEN: 1
Novavax Nuvaxovid: 1
97% of confirmed myocarditis/pericarditis cases are from the two mRNA products (Pfizer + Moderna = 1,190 of 1,231).
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada — CAEFISS landing: canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/canadian-adverse-events-following-immunization-surveillance-system-caefiss.html; COVID-19 vaccine safety dashboard (data cutoff 2023-12-03, published 2024-01-19): health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/
Statistics Canada — 8,286 excess deaths in two months
Statistics Canada, the federal statistical agency, reports the following excess mortality figures. "Excess deaths" means deaths above the statistically expected baseline.
| Period | Excess deaths | % above expected | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2022 – February 2022 | 8,286 | 16.8% | Quebec and Ontario drove the spike. |
| 16 weeks ending October 15, 2022 | 7,800 | 9% | Driven by westernmost provinces. |
| 2022 total deaths | 334,623 | +7.3% vs 2021 | Age-standardized rate: 907.2 → 972.5 per 100k. |
| 2023 continuing excess | — | Ongoing | Alberta and British Columbia still in excess mortality. |
The under-65 anomaly — the government's own data
Statistics Canada reports: Canadians under 65 years old account for 30% of excess deaths but only 10% of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in that age group.
This is the federal statistical agency's own finding. It means something other than COVID-19 is driving excess mortality among younger Canadians. Despite the mass mRNA vaccination rollout in 2021 being the most significant pharmacological intervention in this demographic's history, no federal investigation of non-COVID excess mortality has been launched.
Source: Statistics Canada — "Provisional death counts and excess mortality, January 2021 to July 2023" (The Daily, 2023-10-12); "Deaths, 2022" (The Daily, 2023-11-27). www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231012/dq231012c-eng.htm · www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231127/dq231127b-eng.htm
Master timeline — every datestamped event in one place
Every event below is primary-source cited and renders from /data/vaccine_accountability_timeline.json. Machine-readable; any downstream page or app can consume the same feed.
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The accountability loop is closed
A structurally closed system
When the courts, the compensation program, the regulator, and the statistical agency all operate within the same accountability framework as the entities whose actions they are meant to check, accountability becomes structurally impossible. That is the situation Canadians face as of April 2026.
Legal frameworks raised by plaintiffs and advocates
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Private-law tort — Negligence (Anns/Cooper duty of care)Struck at trial; on appeal at ONCA (Hartman)Whether government owes individuals a duty of care when adopting mass health measures.
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Misfeasance in public officeStruck at trial; on appeal at ONCA (Hartman)Whether specific officials acted unlawfully or with indifference to legality in authorizing or mandating the products.
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Canadian Charter s. 7 — Life, liberty, and security of the personRaised in parallel cases (e.g., Lavergne-Poitras v. Canada)Government action causing death or serious injury through deliberate policy choice.
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Nuremberg Code (1947) — Voluntary informed consentRaised in multiple advocacy submissionsThe Code requires full disclosure of risks and strictly voluntary consent for medical interventions. Whether vaccine mandates (workplace, travel, education) violate voluntary consent.
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Rome Statute Art. 7 — Crimes Against HumanityRaised by advocacy groups; no ICC referral to dateSpecifically Art. 7(1)(k) — "other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health" when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population.
Note on "genocide" framing
The Rome Statute defines genocide (Art. 6) as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. "Complicity in genocide" under Art. 25(3)(c) requires the underlying genocide plus knowing aid or assistance. TENET5 documents facts — deaths, denials, excess mortality, confirmed safety signals, structural accountability failure. We do not assert that Canadian vaccine policy meets the Rome Statute's specific-intent test for genocide. That finding, if it is ever made, will be made by a court. What this investigation documents is: people are dying, compensation is being denied, and the mechanisms of accountability have been closed.
Primary sources
- Ontario Court of Appeal — Hartman v. Canada (Attorney General): coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/item/24102/index.do (item 24102; appeal heard 2026-01-26).
- Public Health Agency of Canada — CAEFISS: canada.ca · CAEFISS landing page.
- PHAC — COVID-19 vaccine safety report: health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety.
- Statistics Canada — "Provisional death counts and excess mortality, Jan 2021 – Jul 2023": statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231012 (The Daily, 2023-10-12).
- Statistics Canada — "Deaths, 2022": statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/231127 (The Daily, 2023-11-27).
- Vaccine Injury Support Program — official: vaccineinjurysupport.ca.
- Government of Canada — QP Note HC-2025-QP-0014 (VISP statistics): search.open.canada.ca/qpnotes/record/hc-sc,HC-2025-QP-0014.
- Global News investigation — "Canada set up a $50M vaccine injury program. Those harmed say it's failing them": globalnews.ca/news/11247648.
- Children's Health Defense Canada — "A Father's Fight for Justice: Dan Hartman's Case Heads to the Ontario Court of Appeal": childrenshealthdefense.ca.
- Western Standard — "Court rejects liability claim over teen's vaccine death": westernstandard.news/news/court-rejects-liability-claim-over-teens-vaccine-death/63460.
- The Canada Times — "Canada Takes Direct Control of Vaccine Injury Compensation Program": thecanadatimes.com.
- Structured data for this page: /data/vaccine_injury_accountability.json — machine-readable JSON with all figures cited above.
What you can do
This investigation documents facts. Turning facts into accountability takes citizen action. Three concrete pathways:
1. Write to your MP — cite Hartman + PHAC's own numbers
Use ourcommons.ca/Members/en to find your Member of Parliament. A short email (< 300 words) citing Hartman v. Canada (AG), ONCA item 24102, plus PHAC's dashboard figure of 1,231 confirmed myocarditis/pericarditis cases and 488 reported deaths post-vaccination, forces the MP to at least acknowledge receipt in their office's constituency casework log. Sample subject line: "Constituent concern — Hartman ONCA appeal and PHAC's 1,231 myocarditis cases."
Template (edit before sending):
Subject: Constituent concern — Hartman ONCA appeal and PHAC's 1,231 myocarditis cases Dear [MP name], As a constituent of [riding], I am writing about the ongoing accountability gap for Canadians injured by mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. The Public Health Agency of Canada's own dashboard (health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccine-safety/) reports 1,231 confirmed myocarditis/pericarditis cases (Brighton certainty 1–3) and 488 deaths reported post-vaccination, with 4 classified "consistent with causal association" — yet the Vaccine Injury Support Program has approved only 234 of 3,317 claims (7.05%) and spent $33.7M on administration against $16.9M paid to injured Canadians. The Ontario Court of Appeal heard Hartman v. Canada (AG) on January 26, 2026 (item 24102). Justice Antoniani's trial holding that there is "no private law duty of care to individual members of the public injured by government core policy decisions" would, if upheld, close tort law to every Canadian injured by government pandemic policy — leaving the 93%-denial VISP as the only recourse. I am asking: (1) what steps are you taking to ensure VISP approval rates reach parity with comparable jurisdictions; (2) will you request a Standing Committee review of the Hartman ruling's policy implications; (3) will you publicly commit to a vote in favour of a statutory cause of action for vaccine- injured Canadians if the Supreme Court of Canada declines to take further appeal. I would appreciate a written response within 21 sitting days. [Your name] [Your address / riding]
2. File a Form 2 Information under s.504 — if personally affected
If you or a family member have been injured by a government health-emergency policy, you have the right under s.504 of the Criminal Code of Canada to lay an Information before a Justice of the Peace. TENET5 has a complete filing guide at prosecution.html (domestic path) and a live tracker at s504-tracker.html. The s.504 instrument exists precisely for situations where the Crown refuses to prosecute; it forces a pre-enquiry hearing under s.507.1 which creates a public record even if the Attorney General later stays proceedings under s.579.
3. Escalate to MPCC / ACCA / CFNIS directly
If your case involves military personnel or Canadian Forces vaccination mandates, file directly with:
- Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC): mpcc-cppm.gc.ca — file a complaint; the MPCC has a statutory investigative mandate.
- Advisory Committee on Causality Assessment (ACCA): the expert panel PHAC references for the causality determinations; inquiries via PHAC AEFI program.
- Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS): canada.ca · Police misconduct — if the conduct complained of involved CAF personnel or policy.
- RCMP National Division (federal jurisdiction): file a written complaint to RCMP headquarters for jurisdictional federal investigation if the parties are federal officials.
Every filing creates a documented notification under NDA s.83 (duty to investigate). Non-investigation after written notification is itself an offence under NDA s.124.
Verification note. The compute infrastructure behind this investigation is publicly measurable: TENET5 runs its benchmarks on 2× NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti GPUs, with live P-vs-NP bench telemetry (3-SAT, subset-sum, TSP) visible at /liril-thinks.html. Readers who want to confirm the technical claims aren’t vapourware can inspect the scaling-exponent data directly.