Ottawa got reports of deaths following COVID vaccines while spending $46 million promoting them
While Ottawa was reassuring Canadians about vaccine safety and spending millions to increase public confidence in vaccination, federal officials were simultaneously monitoring reports of deaths and serious adverse events associated with the vaccines.
The federal government was receiving reports of deaths and serious adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination at the same time it was spending more than $46 million on advertising campaigns, influencer marketing and public messaging designed to increase vaccine uptake across Canada.
The disclosures come from two recently released Order Paper responses obtained through questions submitted by Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall. Together, the responses provide new details about the government's vaccine promotion efforts and the timeline of adverse event reports received by federal health authorities.
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, officials first received a report involving a deceased Pfizer vaccine recipient in January 2021. Reports involving Moderna and AstraZeneca recipients followed in March and April 2021, respectively. The agency also received reports of spontaneous abortion, stroke, myocarditis, pericarditis and heart attacks in the early months of the vaccine rollout.
Federal officials stressed that no causal relationship between the vaccines and those reported deaths or medical events had been established in the cases cited.
At the same time, Ottawa was spending heavily to encourage vaccination.
Government records show at least $46.7 million was spent on COVID-19 vaccine advertising and promotional campaigns between 2021 and 2023. The spending included an $11.3 million "Ripple Effect" campaign, a $5.3 million "Ask the Experts" campaign, a $4.9 million "Educate and Build Trust" campaign, a $7-million campaign aimed at children, and a taxpayer-funded social media influencer campaign costing more than $132,000.
The federal government said the purpose of these campaigns was to provide Canadians with science-based information about vaccine safety, effectiveness, side effects and eligibility while promoting awareness of vaccine availability.
However, when asked how much money was spent specifically investigating vaccine risks and adverse effects, Health Canada said the information is not tracked in a centralized database and could not provide a comprehensive figure.
The Public Health Agency of Canada said it identified safety signals during the vaccine rollout, including myocarditis, pericarditis and thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome. According to the government, those findings contributed to changes in vaccine recommendations in some provinces and updates to vaccine product monographs.
The responses reveal that while Ottawa was reassuring Canadians about vaccine safety and spending millions to increase public confidence in vaccination, federal officials were simultaneously monitoring reports of deaths and serious adverse events associated with the vaccines.
Whether those reports were ultimately determined to be caused by vaccination or not, they formed part of the safety data being collected and analyzed as Canada's largest mass vaccination campaign unfolded.
Sheila Gunn Reid
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COMMENTS
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Benoît-françois De Champlain commented 2026-06-03 16:22:39 -0400Well, I shall not mince words here. I know for a fact that the situation surrounding the matter of these adverse effects is at once far simpler and, unfortunately, much grimmer than what has been said in the article above and in the comments below.
Just as in virtually every other country at the national level, especially in the Western World, the federal government of Canada or, in other words, specifically, the Liberal Party of Canada, while doing the bidding of those who actually pull the strings, namely the members of the globalist elite or cabal, chiefly the World Economic Forum (WEF), has declared war on the people of this nation. With those awful medical products that the mere concern for scientific, rational or objective accuracy would not allow me to refer to as ’’vaccines’’, amongst other aspects of this vast multi-pronged attack, the federal Liberals (not only them, maybe, but especially them) here want us destitute, they want us demoralised, they want us ill, they want us dependent, they want us addicted, and, in the end, preferably to them, they want us dead.
I, for one, will not give them that kind of pleasure. I will not advocate for their death, either; this, in the end, would make martyrs out of them, at least to a significant portion of the population, and that, dear ladies and gentlemen, dear fellow Rebel News readers, watchers and supporters, is a kind of honour that those satanic monsters absolutely would not deserve. -
Peter Wrenshall commented 2026-06-03 11:28:36 -0400Many years ago my father, suffering severe arthritis in several major joints, was prescribed Vioxx. It worked well, and he would have spent the last few years of his life in reasonable comfort. Then Vioxx was pulled from the market on the strength of a number of major adverse events. The brutal irony is that the rate of major adverse events associated with Vioxx was many times lower than with the COVID vaccines. Yet the COVID vaccine rollout trundled on while Ottawa very deliberately downplayed the major adverse events associated with them. There has been a sea change in attitude in public health between then and now toward callous authoritarianism.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2026-06-02 23:47:31 -0400The government bureaucrats are detached from reality. I know from first hand experience that bureaucrat managers think in terms of data rather than human lives. Of course there are a few good managers who do care but they generally process data like machines.
