Health Canada has locked away internal reports on vaccine and drug injuries for up to 15 years

The disclosure emerged in an Inquiry of Ministry response detailing unusually long delays under the Access To Information Act.

Officials said the request originally involved several million pages of records. It has since been narrowed in scope and is now being processed, but the extended delay remains one of the longest on record within the federal government.

Health Canada has locked away internal reports on vaccine and drug injuries for up to 15 years, citing the sheer scale of the records involved, according to documents tabled in Parliament.

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