PHAC lacks timely national data on children’s vaccination rates as report finds agency is not meeting targets

The agency’s 2024-25 departmental results report uses rates from a 2021 survey. Newer data is available, but that source doesn’t include rates from all provinces and territories.

Health Minister Marjorie Michel recently told CBC Radio’s “The House” that she's “relying a lot” on the efforts of frontline organizations and the health sciences sector to improve vaccination rates because she doesn’t want to “politicize” the issue. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY TESSIE SANCI

December 23, 2025

Although the Public Health Agency of Canada has a target vaccination rate of 95 per cent for two-year-olds, a recent report states that only 71.4 per cent are vaccinated. But that finding is based on four-year-old data.

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