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Christine Elliott: Ted Kuntz and Advocacy Group

christine elliott: The group's vice-president, Ted Kuntz, said the company responsible for disseminating the campaign faced pressure from an unknown source to remove the ads, saying the move suggests Ontario's public policy does not support public education, according to Vancouver Courier. Elliott disagreed, lamenting the amount of public misinformation on medical subjects, redoubling calls for Ontario residents to get their vaccines and suggesting failure to do so has already had consequences. Christine Elliott expressed fundamental disagreement with the billboard ads paid for by Vaccination Choice Canada, an advocacy group that describes its mandate as ensuring people are fully informed and educated about immunizations for themselves and their children.article continues below Trending Stories Fundraiser started for Vancouver lawyer injured after van jumps curb Song remains the same for Vancouver music shop closure real estate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces 20 million for Vancouver housing projects Nine years ago today, Canada got its Golden Goal in Vancouver The campaign, which rolled out across more than 50 digital billboards around the city last week but appeared to have been taken down ahead of schedule on Wednesday, featured a rotation of four slogans and direct questions that a group spokesman said aimed to ensure that Canadians are truly informed when they consent to getting vaccinated. A certain number of people need to be vaccinated in order for it to be effective, Elliott said after directly criticizing the Toronto-targeted campaign. So we are going to continue, through the Ministry of Health, to encourage people to have their children vaccinated and to receive regular inoculations themselves. It's not necessarily happening now, and we're seeing things come forward like tuberculosis outbreaks in certain parts of Ontario, measles outbreaks and so on. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.