Health minister says Canada can’t rely on U.S. health institutions anymore
- Sarah Ritchie
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Friday, December 26, 2025. 12:22 PM EDT
Canada needs reliable partners who are looking to science on subjects like vaccines, says Minister Marjorie Michel.
By Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she can no longer trust American health agencies as reliable partners.
Michel says Canada is used to looking to the United States as a source of health and scientific information but that has changed since President Donald Trump took over.
An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in July argued the Trump administration is dismantling the country’s public health and research infrastructure.
The administration slashed the budgets of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, both of which collect and analyze public health data.
More recently an advisory panel chosen by Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., recently recommended ending routine hepatitis B vaccines for newborns, and is considering changes to the rest of the childhood vaccine schedule.
Michel says Canada is still monitoring what’s happening in the U.S. but it needs reliable partners who are looking to science on subjects like vaccines.
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