Forged Ontario vaccine documents prompt Quebec to adapt passport verification process

Quebec’s ministry of health will make changes to its verification process for the COVID-19 passport after possibly hundreds of people were able to quite easily get their hands on faked passports online, CTV News has learned.

The Ministry of Health and Social Services said it will make changes to its verification process after people were able to bypass the system in recent days using phoney immunization documents from Ontario.

CTV News obtained copies of some of these phoney documents. A forensic expert confirmed that Ontario’s proof of vaccines are easy to falsify.

“It's very easy to manipulate a PDF document as there are a number of editing software present on the Internet that you download for free and you can make all the changes, all the editing,” said Shabnam Preet Kaur, a Docufraud Canada analyst.

“It's very hard to find the manipulations on the documents.”