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The Public Health Agency of Canada has taken over the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) following mounting controversy that left those injured by the ‘safe and effective’ COVID shots waiting in limbo.

Exclusive reporting from Rebel News determined that the program funnels public funds meant to compensate victims instead into the pockets of well-paid consultants, leaving applicants to languish in endless delays, bureaucratic hurdles, high denial rates, and minimal (or no) support despite serious permanent injuries.

Now, the federal government is stepping in to take over the disastrous program, with a brand-new title: the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program.

‘Impact,’ akin to a fender-bender or a minor inconvenience; something that just… happened.

Not vaccine injury, damage or death. Just a soft, bureaucratic little ‘impact.’

This was the program sold to both trusting and coerced Canadians as “fair and timely access to financial support” for Canadians who got “seriously, permanently” injured by a Health Canada-authorized vaccine.

Only after tens of millions of dollars were handed over to the insulated-from-scrutiny consultants at Oxaro (formerly Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Consulting, or RCGT) did a fraction make it to injured Canadians.

Out of thousands of claims and hundreds of devastated families, Oxaro still got paid – on time, every time – while real people waited 18 months or more for a case manager, were denied for paperwork technicalities, or, worse yet: were offered state-sanctioned euthanasia instead of real help.

Not only did the Liberals grossly underestimate how many injuries there would be, but it was clear within the first several months of the program launch that injuries weren’t as ‘rare’ as they led the public to believe.

Instead, they were widespread, and this program was never designed to help the influx of claimants it began receiving.

Now that PHAC is taking over, perhaps they think this switch-up will fix this bureaucratic nightmare, but not so fast. During this transition, there will be no online portal, no quick answers, and services will be “temporarily limited” as though they haven’t already been for years.

Same victims, same delays, just a fresh coat of government paint and a new acronym.

This rebranding may look like an attempt to turn the page, but the real signal of intent is whether transparency and performance actually improve after this changeover.

Will reporting requirements improve? Are timelines for claims actually going to get shorter? Will there be clearer public data on approvals, denials, and those endless backlogs? Will independent oversight increase, or quietly disappear now that the government is grading its own homework?

So far, this has been a taxpayer-funded slush fund that funnelled millions to well-connected consultants while the people the government injured were left broke, broken, and begging.

A new name and a new manager don’t fix this system that has left injured Canadians waiting, suffering, and unheard. Instead, it could stand to make the failure easier to hide.