Most people are on-board with getting the COVID vaccine. Statistics Canada says in the period of March and April, 88 per cent of Canadians aged 12 and older reported that they were somewhat or very likely to get the vaccine, or had already received at least one dose. That was an increase from the period of January/February when the number was 82 per cent.

Compared with the national average, the proportion of those willing to get a vaccine was higher in Quebec at 92 per cent and lower in the Prairie provinces at 83 per cent in the March/April period.

From January to April, 83 per cent of people designated as a visible minority reported that they were willing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, an increase from 75 per cent in the period from September to December 2020.

Indigenous people living off-reserve reported being less likely to get the vaccine compared with non-Indigenous people.
From January to April, 75 per cent of Indigenous people aged 12 and older living off-reserve reported being willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. In the first four months of 2021, 81 per cent of First Nations people living off-reserve and 71 per cent of Métis showed vaccine willingness. A similar proportion of Indigenous people showed vaccine willingness between the periods of September-to-December 2020 (72 per cent) and January-to-April 2021 (75 per cent).