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“This is a conversation you should be having with a health care provider,” Gélinas said in an interview Wednesday. She added “unfortunately vaccination is a topic that has been polarized.”

Mark Nyman, the man who asked Gélinas for her signature, was so incensed he took the issue to the local paper, Northern Life, where he said his objection over his daughter’s immunization stems from the belief: “I don’t believe chemicals should be dumped into our system.”

On Thursday, he contacted the National Post to say Gélinas was “way off course” and he was essentially just asking her to act as a witness to him endorsing the form for his daughter.

“The fact that Gélinas trampled my basic human rights and denied me of a service that she provides,” he wrote in an email. “We own our bodies and are responsible for our children and under Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act, we have the right to informed consent, which means the right to refuse any medical treatment if we feel the risks of the treatment are unacceptable.”

“Forced vaccinations of any kind violates these basic human rights guaranteed us all in the Charter” of Rights and Freedoms, Nyman said.

There is no legitimate medical science to back up the concerns over the MMR vaccine.

But, about 40 per cent of Canadians remain confused about the science behind the life-saving immunization, according to a recent poll. For people who work in the health care sector, that’s frustrating, especially since there has been an upswing in measles cases since celebrities started touting the junk science that undermines vaccine safety. There are currently 16 confirmed cases of measles in Ontario alone.