At the very least if your child gets someone sick with a preventable desease they should be held liable.

I lived in a developing country for a time - childhood vaccines would have saved so many kids lives….yes they should be mandatory. In the sense that you cannot access services if unvaccinated eg. Daycare, schools, healthcare services.

You can't make vaccinations "mandatory", but you can make them the basic benchmark for participation in society.

In Ontario and New Brunswick, proof of vaccination is already required for children to attend school. But parents can get an exemption in both provinces for medical, religious or philosophical reasons, as long as they fill out a form.

This right here is the problem. Kids should need vaccinations to go to school or to receive government benefits of any kind, unless there is a firm medical reason that precludes them. Religious or philosophical excuses are not sufficient. If you don't want to get vaccinated then you don't want to participate in modern society.

I hope the other 30% are just kids that don’t like needles

Let's ban vape flavors to protect kids, but you fucking don't give them life-saving medicine!

The sad thing is, I'm willing to bet that those 30% are basing their choices on either a lack of factual information, or a misperception about vaccines based on disinformation (i.e. that they cause autism). And a few probably for religious reasons, which is sad because religion should never be used to hurt kids.

If there was a genuine sit down with those 30% to ask what their concerns are, I'm willing to bet that the majority of them would change their mind.