1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:27,160 Good afternoon, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 2 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:32,840 My name is Liam Sturgis and you are watching Rounding the News, your weekly news roundup 3 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,440 presented by Rounding the Earth. 4 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:43,600 Now we've got a very, well fun, certainly interesting show, an important show for me, 5 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,180 hopefully an important show for you as well. 6 00:00:46,180 --> 00:00:50,680 So let's get into it ladies and gentlemen on this Friday, May 5th. 7 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,940 Today's episode is titled Strong and Free. 8 00:00:53,940 --> 00:00:58,240 Now before we dive in too much, I want to remind everybody that no matter where you're 9 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:02,440 watching there's a way to support the show, which in turn of course supports me, allows 10 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:07,200 me to continue doing this with Matthew Crawford, founder of Rounding the Earth. 11 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to our weekly locals exclusive for 21 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,560 supporters only live streams. 22 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:54,280 And this past week, two days ago was very exciting because Matthew is now working on 23 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,400 the beginnings of what will become a book. 24 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,800 And we've titled that discussion, Help Me Fill in Gaps for the Efficacy Illusion. 25 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:08,040 So if you want to get involved, then go over to roundingtheearth.locals.com and become 26 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:10,880 a paid supporter. 27 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:11,980 So let's dive in. 28 00:02:11,980 --> 00:02:21,580 As always this week is overflowing with tremendously interesting things that have happened. 29 00:02:21,580 --> 00:02:27,880 And I'm going to just very briefly cover a couple of them before we dive into the main 30 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:28,880 topic. 31 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:38,280 So you may have heard that over in Russia, the Kremlin was struck by two different drones. 32 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,680 Understand that the Kremlin is like the White House. 33 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:44,760 It's like parliament. 34 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,520 It's the building that is the head of the government of Russia. 35 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:54,640 And there's a lot of the fog of war surrounding this story. 36 00:02:54,640 --> 00:03:00,080 Just understand the severity of the allegations being made though. 37 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,640 Now of course there's a possibility this entire thing is fake, but let's assume that indeed 38 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,280 there were drones that struck the Kremlin. 39 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:12,760 Well you've got Russia who has come out and accused Ukraine, I believe as a surrogate 40 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:18,120 for the United States, as having attempted to assassinate Russian President Vladimir 41 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,120 Putin. 42 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,760 Now I don't know what evidence they provided thus far. 43 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,880 This is an unfolding story, but I just wanted to share a couple of headlines as I found 44 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:33,240 them that sort of paint a picture on how the West, quote unquote, our side is reacting 45 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:34,240 to this. 46 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:35,880 You have false flag? 47 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:41,840 Journalists say Russia likely staged Kremlin drone attack it blamed on Ukraine and the 48 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,600 West. 49 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:49,000 Now understand what is being suggested there and understand once again that this is equivalent 50 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,520 to the White House or to Canadian parliament being attacked. 51 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,720 And if the suggestion here is that Russia would conduct an attack on its own capital, 52 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,080 well isn't that interesting? 53 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:07,400 I suppose that affirms the premise that the United States government might conduct a false 54 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:12,560 flag attack on its own capital. 55 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,360 Perhaps the capital itself. 56 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,600 Of course the equivalent being the White House and that's not quite what happened on January 57 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,280 6th for example. 58 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:26,640 Or for example a staged attack on Canadian parliament. 59 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,720 The point is these are not assertions that would be made lightly in reverse. 60 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:36,320 So it is interesting to see that that is in fact the analysis being put forward. 61 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,640 Now perhaps there's some interesting discussion to be had there. 62 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:39,640 I'm not sure. 63 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,840 But another headline, Russia is canceling Victory Day celebrations to hide its military 64 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:49,320 losses and is using alleged Kremlin drone strike as an excuse, experts say. 65 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,880 So I'll be curious to see who these analysts and experts are when I have a little more 66 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,320 time to pursue that this evening. 67 00:04:55,320 --> 00:05:00,120 I did want to direct you however to a discussion I thought was very informative, very productive, 68 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,880 even if it is speculative. 69 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,720 And this was held by the Duran. 70 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,880 They had a live stream titled Let's Talk About Drones Hitting the Kremlin. 71 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:16,800 This is Alexander, Alex and Alexander, I can't remember their last names, of the Duran. 72 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,020 And a friendly reminder that all of these will be available in the show notes once I 73 00:05:20,020 --> 00:05:24,160 complete them and publish them shortly after this video today. 74 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,920 So that's that's the craziness of Russia and Ukraine. 75 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:32,000 But unfortunately, things continue to be crazy over in the nation of France. 76 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,780 We haven't talked about this very much. 77 00:05:33,780 --> 00:05:39,960 But you may have heard that, well, people aren't very happy with one Emmanuel Macron, 78 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:52,600 who fairly recently pushed through by dictate a reform to to retirement or to to pension. 79 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,640 And the details of this, of course, are not my area of expertise. 80 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,960 However, it's quite clear the French people are not happy. 81 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:06,180 They weren't happy before they weren't likely to support this new change to pension law. 82 00:06:06,180 --> 00:06:11,340 And that is, in fact, apparently why the Macron government decided to push through by such 83 00:06:11,340 --> 00:06:12,600 heavy handed dictate. 84 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,640 And the result is protests across the country, which have been going on, I believe, virtually 85 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,880 every day for weeks now. 86 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:25,400 And the headline from France 24 that I had pulled up is Independent Report slams indiscriminate 87 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,560 arrests at French pension protests. 88 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,020 So apparently they're indiscriminate arrests. 89 00:06:32,020 --> 00:06:37,360 Now thankfully, in Canada, we're not dealing with with violence of any kind. 90 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,160 No, in fact, we're dealing simply with protests. 91 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:48,320 Now this is very relevant for more reasons than some people may think. 92 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,400 So federal employees strike continues to shut down Canada. 93 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,880 Now stop me if you've heard this one before. 94 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:02,040 Now, employees of the government of Canada, for those who don't know, are on strike. 95 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:07,840 And a lot of them are still on strike, effectively shutting down aspects of the country in the 96 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:12,760 process, shutting down the ability for parts of the country to function. 97 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:20,680 On April 7, 2023, the Public Service Alliance of Canada announced that its membership of 98 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:27,200 Canada Revenue Agency employees voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action on behalf 99 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:34,120 of 35,000 workers represented by the Union of Taxation Employees and the Public Service 100 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,800 Alliance of Canada. 101 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:44,840 And they were joined on April 12 by a second group called the Treasury Board. 102 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:50,280 Okay, so it's not just tax employees, but they are a large portion of that strike. 103 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:56,400 As has been widely noted, of course, the decision to go on strike at this exact moment makes 104 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:01,880 life very difficult for Canadians given that the tax deadline, the deadline to file your 105 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,460 federal income tax was May 1. 106 00:08:05,460 --> 00:08:11,480 And for whatever reason, calls to extend that deadline for this year have been entirely 107 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:13,060 dismissed. 108 00:08:13,060 --> 00:08:15,560 No one wants to hear it. 109 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:22,040 Now there was some headline news that had people thinking maybe this had been resolved. 110 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:27,160 But no, while the Treasury Board staff managed to strike a deal with the government on May 111 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:33,760 1, the Canada Revenue Agency employees were not included in that deal and remain on strike. 112 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:40,360 As a result, according to Global News, I quote, UTE National President Marc Briere told reporters 113 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:46,080 Wednesday, it's been a rough couple of weeks for taxpayers and those who help them file, 114 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,720 and the effects of the strike would be long lasting. 115 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,360 They went through a hell of a time, and I think that some people are late. 116 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:58,180 So there's an impact and there will be a big backlog, he said. 117 00:08:58,180 --> 00:09:01,920 There's already a backlog, but if the strike doesn't get resolved, it's going to be a 118 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,000 tremendous backlog at the CRA. 119 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,800 So this goes without saying, and the point is, it's not just the people who process the 120 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:16,520 returns once they're in, it's also the people who help Canadians file their taxes. 121 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,680 I just want to point out, it seems we've got a wonderful robust discussion going on in 122 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:21,680 the locals chat. 123 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:23,480 That's absolutely fantastic. 124 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:24,480 Thank you all. 125 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:29,040 I will read these after the episode, but continue to discuss away. 126 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,560 And I'll lots of protests in Israel too. 127 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:34,520 I don't know the details, but just another example of people protesting. 128 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,680 Jen, thank you actually for contributing that. 129 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:41,620 That is very true, and I believe it has to do with Netanyahu attempting to do something 130 00:09:41,620 --> 00:09:45,720 that is unpopular, but I do not remember. 131 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,080 Anyway, moving on, the demands set out. 132 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,480 What are they asking for? 133 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:54,840 So the demand set out by the PSAC, Public Servants Alliance of Canada, in their strike 134 00:09:54,840 --> 00:10:03,400 action began with asking for a 13.5% raise in order to match inflation. 135 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:08,760 Can you believe inflation officially is apparently 13.5%? 136 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,500 As well as the flexibility to work remotely, the reduction of the government's use of 137 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:19,840 outside contractors and the implementation of seniority rules in the event of layoffs. 138 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:28,320 So look, aside from the very real difficulties caused to Canadian citizens by the mere act 139 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:37,400 of the CRA going on strike, the PSAC has celebrated the actions by the picketers to, quote, shut 140 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:44,000 down critical infrastructure across the country completely unrelated to taxation. 141 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:50,760 In one such thread, discussing their various escalated strike actions, the PSAC boasted 142 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:56,120 that they had shut down the ports of Vancouver, Montreal, and St. John's, blockaded the Treasury 143 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:03,000 Board office in Ottawa, and other strategic locations from coast to coast. 144 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:10,900 Now, while the right to go on strike, as far as I can tell, is fundamental to liberal democracy 145 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:18,520 as we have it here in Canada, many incredulous onlookers are pointing out the utter hypocrisy 146 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:26,280 highlighted by this particular action as compared to the violent response to the Freedom Convoy 147 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,520 2022 protest in Ottawa. 148 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,780 And related protests, of course, across Canada, which remember, they were accused of blockading 149 00:11:35,780 --> 00:11:42,040 critical infrastructure and shutting down border crossings, which this protest is doing 150 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:48,000 at significantly higher levels. 151 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,720 The example of a tweet I provided here from someone replying, send the cavalry, freeze 152 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,760 bank accounts, and throw them in jail. 153 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,120 Now, I read that as sarcasm. 154 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,440 That's a very valid point. 155 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:08,680 Realistically, the takeaway message here is not that the CRA employees on strike are crossing 156 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:12,840 a line by going on strike or engaging in these strike related actions. 157 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,080 Although I suppose one could argue even this is going too far. 158 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:17,080 I'm not sure. 159 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,080 Maybe it comes down to matter of opinion. 160 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:24,980 But instead, this serves, I believe, as a reminder that such actions to disrupt the 161 00:12:24,980 --> 00:12:32,420 status quo of the day to day of government operations is not at all unexpected in a strike 162 00:12:32,420 --> 00:12:35,000 action like this. 163 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:43,260 Let this serve, perhaps, then, as an opportunity to revisit the unlawful and authoritarian response 164 00:12:43,260 --> 00:12:47,080 to the Freedom Convoy once again. 165 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:54,540 And to remind those around us of the absurdity highlighted by the drastic contrast in institutional 166 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:58,480 treatment of the two. 167 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:03,840 On the other hand, one can't help but wonder if there are details not far below the surface 168 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,000 that may shed light on matters. 169 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,000 I wonder how many times I've used that line. 170 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:16,280 Well, PSAC, I learned, is partnered with the Canadian Labour Congress. 171 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:21,320 In fact, I believe it is part of the Canadian Labour Congress, as well as the Association 172 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,320 of Public Service Alliance Retirees. 173 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:28,400 Now, as it turns out, I had previously stumbled on this Canadian Labour Congress in research 174 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:36,200 into an initiative called Faster Together, of which the Canadian Labour Congress is a 175 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,200 partner. 176 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:43,880 Now, Faster Together describes itself as, quote, a voluntary effort of a wide variety 177 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:50,840 of people working together to promote COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and help speed a recovery 178 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,720 from this pandemic. 179 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:59,560 FasterTogether.ca, go check them out. 180 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:06,920 Well, other partners of this COVID-19 vaccine promotion initiative, in their words, are 181 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,340 employers from across Canada. 182 00:14:09,340 --> 00:14:13,800 This includes the country's universities, labour unions, trade associations, sports 183 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:19,760 teams, cities, towns, district municipalities, banks, insurance companies, you name it. 184 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,680 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, they're all there. 185 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:28,280 The biotechnology industry is also well represented by their own industry association, Biotech 186 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:34,760 Canada, as well as the Pfizer and or Moderna, depending on the organization, funded 19 187 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:42,080 to 0, the Bioscience Association Manitoba and Life Sciences British Columbia. 188 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:49,440 So maybe I'm overestimating the impact of the lobby, call it the pharmaceutical lobby, 189 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:54,120 call it the pro-COVID agenda lobby, I don't care. 190 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:55,640 But there's a lobby there. 191 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,440 And it could be that I'm overestimating the impact that it could have or did have in an 192 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,120 extended network like this. 193 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:08,760 On the other hand, perhaps it is not so surprising after all that one of these groups of federally 194 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:15,720 regulated employees receive better treatment than the other, especially given that one 195 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:25,000 was protesting the forced, coerced, mandatory acceptance of this particular pharmaceutical 196 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 product. 197 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:35,960 Anyway, on the note of things not going so hot in Canada on that front, the National 198 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,660 Citizens Inquiry in Vancouver. 199 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:45,280 So from Tuesday to Thursday this week, the National Citizens Inquiry or NCI made its 200 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:50,920 stop in Langley, British Columbia, just outside of Vancouver for the Vancouver arm of the 201 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,040 national tour. 202 00:15:53,040 --> 00:16:00,740 For those unaware, the NCI is a non-governmental, citizen-run and self-funded or investigation 203 00:16:00,740 --> 00:16:07,120 campaign you might say, looking into Canada's handling of the declared COVID-19 pandemic, 204 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,480 hearing testimony from hundreds of professionals and everyday citizens. 205 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:17,920 I, myself, I was personally able to attend days one and three, hearing firsthand some 206 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:23,960 of the most impressive and impactful stories and presentations that have come out of the 207 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,920 last three years. 208 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:33,000 Now I have on screen just a sampling of those presentations. 209 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:38,680 Top left we have Matthew Evans-Cockle, top right we have Deanna MacLeod, bottom left 210 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:44,520 is me and bottom right is Gail Davidson. 211 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,840 I highly recommend going and watching each of them. 212 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,680 Matthew talked a bit about conflicts of interest and the way that our universities, the way 213 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:56,880 we think of them versus what they actually do, the ideological and financial conflicts 214 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:57,880 there. 215 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:58,880 It was tremendously interesting. 216 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:05,740 Deanna revisited the Pfizer inoculations do more harm than good video that went so viral 217 00:17:05,740 --> 00:17:10,640 and got Dr. Robert Malone kicked off Twitter that exposed that even the clinical trials 218 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:15,640 run for the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed quite literally that the products cause 219 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,440 more harm than good before they were even rolled out to the rest of the world. 220 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:26,080 I talked a little bit about, well I'll explain in a second, and Gail talked about the international 221 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:32,480 human right obligations that Canada has failed to meet and in fact most countries around 222 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,560 the world have failed to meet. 223 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:39,600 And it presented a really interesting conundrum that perhaps we'll revisit another time. 224 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,480 I highly recommend watching. 225 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,320 Now some of you may recall, so why was I there? 226 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,780 I'm no expert. 227 00:17:48,780 --> 00:17:55,120 Some of you may recall in June of 2022 I was invited to participate in an event titled 228 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:58,600 a citizens hearing in Toronto Ontario. 229 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:05,200 My flight left Vancouver mere hours after the federal restriction on travel for citizens 230 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:12,500 deemed to be unvaccinated, whatever that means, was suspended. 231 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:18,240 In my role as secretary, I had the honour as you can see of sitting beside Preston Manning, 232 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:23,060 Susan Natsche and David Ross who served as the panel for a citizens hearing. 233 00:18:23,060 --> 00:18:28,880 My specific job was to take notes, which I frantically did while listening to the in-person 234 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,160 and online testimonies. 235 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:36,160 My fingers have never hurt so much, but it was well worth it. 236 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:42,840 And just as an aside, for those who followed the Corbett Report, you may have seen James 237 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:47,440 Corbett's recent interview with NCI spokesperson Michel LeDuc-Catlin. 238 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,600 Oh I don't even know how to pronounce that. 239 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:57,520 Now the thumbnail for the video, part of Corbett's Solutions Watch series, features the NCI in 240 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:03,480 the top two quadrants and interestingly a citizens hearing in the bottom two. 241 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:12,960 I was proud and ecstatic to find that I am in that thumbnail as it felt like a surefire 242 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:20,360 sign that my contributions to this cause have been valuable and valued. 243 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:25,100 And as a Corbett Report community member myself, it was very exciting to be acknowledged even 244 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:26,940 in this very passive way. 245 00:19:26,940 --> 00:19:28,680 So thank you James. 246 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,760 And I know why he did that, it's because these pictures are featured on the National 247 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:39,640 Citizens Inquiry website as part of the story of how the NCI came to be. 248 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:45,200 Now this event, the National Citizens, or rather the citizens hearing was the first 249 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:51,360 opportunity that I had to meet in real life people who would become good friends over 250 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:58,880 the internet since mid-2021 and just as notably to place myself right in front of people who 251 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:04,960 have suffered the physical consequences of the all too common adverse events from the 252 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:10,400 various COVID-19 vaccine products that they were coerced into taking. 253 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,320 Some might say forced. 254 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:21,280 It was no longer just a matter of numbers as reported by my friends at Open VAERS and 255 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:27,520 Welcome the Eagle 88 reporting on the new VAERS drops every Friday. 256 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:37,060 It was a matter of eye contact with people who may never return to their former selves. 257 00:20:37,060 --> 00:20:40,520 Of course the inverse is also true. 258 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:48,280 Through their suffering it was clear to me that these everyday people had become extraordinary 259 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:53,440 by refusing to go gently into that good night. 260 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:59,160 Truthfully I imagined that they were always extraordinary and it was through this tragic 261 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:08,600 and avoidable suffering that they have demonstrated to themselves how powerful they really are. 262 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:17,920 These are victims in one sense but so too are they the heroes in this story. 263 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,540 So what then? 264 00:21:19,540 --> 00:21:25,240 So as a citizens hearing completed and a next steps task force went about planning what 265 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:31,340 would become the National Citizens Inquiry it became clear that no one opportunity to 266 00:21:31,340 --> 00:21:38,960 share stories would successfully cement them into history at least not everybody. 267 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:52,440 And as we know as newly minted celebrities like Steve Kirsch, Jessica Rose, Robert Malone 268 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:59,120 and long established names like Jordan Peterson and James Corbett as they all stepped into 269 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:03,100 the spotlight for their NCI testimonies. 270 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:10,440 Many others would inevitably not be selected to testify for a second time. 271 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,480 Now that's primarily a matter of logistics. 272 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:19,620 There are truly only so many hours in the week and a limited wealth with which to rent 273 00:22:19,620 --> 00:22:24,000 conference rooms and hire audio visual teams. 274 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:30,880 In some cases I imagine someone's story may not be deemed sensational enough in order 275 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:37,940 to advance the larger agenda of shocking our friends, family members and neighbors to attention 276 00:22:37,940 --> 00:22:41,960 which we certainly need to do. 277 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:49,040 These are reasonable choices that have to be made and the result is that some of those 278 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:56,380 names will be lost to time as the rest of the world moves on. 279 00:22:56,380 --> 00:23:02,300 Even if it is that they're moving on to the next such opportunity to hear stories. 280 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:08,000 I can't stop that none of us can stop that and that's that's the nature of history. 281 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:13,280 The grains of sand. 282 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:17,640 The grains of sand in time. 283 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:23,200 That one way I thought I might be able to help minimize this effect and just simply 284 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:28,920 to capture and document the history is by translating the testimonies presented at a 285 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:33,920 citizen's hearing into a format a written format which could be more easily handed to 286 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:39,480 friends and family and elected officials who otherwise might decline to visit a website. 287 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,480 For example they're tired of getting your emails. 288 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,900 Furthermore as I learned from Sonia Anderson who organized the citizens hearing and my 289 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:53,080 colleague Lisa of the Canadian COVID Care Alliance a book of course can be submitted 290 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:59,340 to Library and Archives Canada or the Library of Congress if you're in the United States 291 00:23:59,340 --> 00:24:04,940 to be included in the nation's official record. 292 00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:08,220 And so that's what I did. 293 00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:13,840 The official report from a citizens hearing is now available for all and I want to be 294 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,920 very clear I'm not here to sell you anything. 295 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:23,560 It's available for all in digital form for free and yes it is as well available in paperback 296 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,320 hardcover and ebook through Amazon. 297 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:32,360 Now I know that many people take issue with Amazon as do I. 298 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:38,160 And by the way here's here is my copy of the hardcover that I purchased. 299 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:44,320 The paperbacks are slightly better formatted but the reason we went with Amazon in this 300 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:50,480 instance is that it was likely the only way we could have physical copies printed without 301 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,480 asking for a significant down payment for printing costs from the Canadian COVID Care 302 00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:01,440 Alliance who had already dispensed tens of thousands of dollars in donations to set up 303 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,880 the event in the first place. 304 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:10,900 What Amazon does is it allows us to offer the book through a print on demand through 305 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:16,160 print on demand which is a service which does not yet as far as I can tell seem to have 306 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,200 a more independent alternative. 307 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:25,640 There was talk of reaching out to Children's Health Defence and their CHD books to ask 308 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:30,000 if they would publish the book for us and perhaps it's not too late to explore that 309 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,040 option if they'll have us. 310 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:42,040 But for now we have accomplished at least part of our mission and Jen Slavin notes that 311 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,040 she has a copy as well and yes I remember well when she bought it I was very excited 312 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,420 she was among the first. 313 00:25:48,420 --> 00:25:54,480 So thank you again and to be clear all of the proceeds the profit that comes in from 314 00:25:54,480 --> 00:26:00,840 the books go to the Canadian COVID Care Alliance to continue to use them for non-profit purposes 315 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:05,320 to continue advocating and producing materials all the stuff you would want an organization 316 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:10,520 like the CCCA to be doing. 317 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,760 So we've accomplished at least part of our mission. 318 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:20,960 Susan Natsche who I wrote the executive summary of the book with in fact she wrote most of 319 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:25,840 it I simply formatted that part and as well as David Ross the executive director of the 320 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:32,640 CCCA they suggested that I present the report as evidence for the NCI's on record and that 321 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,120 is what I did. 322 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:41,120 My entire testimony from Thursday May 4th has been clipped and uploaded clipped by my 323 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:46,880 friend Gabriel at Libre Solutions Network big thank you and I took that and I've uploaded 324 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:52,720 that so far to my YouTube channel and I'm going to upload that to rumble and to all 325 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,320 the other rounding the earth channels as well and I thought about playing it here but you 326 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:01,000 know what we're going to have the opportunity to do that at a later date because there is 327 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:12,880 more there is more to look at today because as time remains a restriction on us all I 328 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,640 wasn't able to do what I really wanted to do which is to read the names of the brave 329 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,360 Canadians who provided testimony at a citizens hearing. 330 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:27,880 I tried we ran out of time so when you watch the video you're not going to see that but 331 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:37,040 I'm very proud to do that now so I'm going to turn to the end of my copy here. 332 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:42,120 So the Canadian COVID Care Alliance extends its deepest gratitude to all those who provided 333 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:49,080 testimony during a citizens hearing Chief Hugh Okogi, Dean Allison, Bo Bedard, Kayla 334 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:55,880 Bishop, Miriam Bohemier, Louis Brown, Sean Buckley, Colin Carey, Dr. Frances Christian, 335 00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:03,960 April Crocker, Max Daigle, Arlene Dotto, Gail Davidson, Annabel Edge, Karen Epstein-Gilboa, 336 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:10,600 Ryan Gassner, Jen Gilbert and Jessie, Richard Gergis, Leighton Gray, Maria Gucci, Lindy 337 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:19,040 Hall, Dan Hartman, Greg Hill, Dr. York Shung, Brooke Jackson, Kayla Jones, James Kitchen, 338 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:26,840 Karen Cobel, Brian Cranky, Janina Cranky, Henry Lu, Officer Andrew McGillivray, Scarlett 339 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:35,200 Martin, Deanna McLeod, Dr. Chris Milburn, Nicole Minnican, Tanya Minnican, Sergio Molina, 340 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:43,600 Kelly Sue Oberle, Dr. Eric Payne, Dr. Steven Pellick, Beverly Pearley, Dr. Patrick Phillips, 341 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:53,800 Gordon Polivoy, Dr. Julie Panessi, Sam Presvelos, Maralina Repo, Padre Harold Risto, Alan Rubin, 342 00:28:53,800 --> 00:29:00,920 Dr. Richard Chabas, Chris Schaeffer, David Shaw, Josh Schulman, Leslie Smith, Irvin Studen, 343 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:08,840 Susan Vander Rassel, Audrey Vanderhook, Steve Van Leeuwen, Haley Weinrout, Jayden Weinrout, 344 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:14,600 Maydeen Wilson, and Dr. Chong Wang. 345 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,640 Let their names not be forgotten. 346 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,760 And many of them are continuing to fight and that's the best part. 347 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:28,360 Many did, many did get the opportunity to speak again at the NCI, particularly the professionals. 348 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:36,240 And it goes without saying, the most effort will need to go into the non-professionals 349 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,520 in terms of keeping their names in everyone's heads. 350 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:44,360 So let's hope, let's hope that this has done some of that. 351 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:50,240 But you know, well, and last but not least, I just want to add that all of their individual 352 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:56,920 testimonies can be found at citizenshearing.ca and they will be up there for as long as the 353 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,940 internet exists as far as I'm concerned. 354 00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:10,520 So if you are curious, you can go and if you can sacrifice the time, you won't regret it, 355 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,000 though it may not be easy. 356 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:18,720 But there's some practical action and practical knowledge that we can take from this process 357 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,800 because something rather interesting has happened, has come to light, you might say. 358 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:32,520 But I'm going to direct our attention to the testimony of Dr. Patrick Phillips of Ontario, 359 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,120 Canada. 360 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:40,940 As summarized in his presentation at a citizens hearing in June 2022 and as reiterated again 361 00:30:40,940 --> 00:30:49,240 during his national citizens inquiry testimony, Dr. Phillips has had his medical license suspended 362 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:54,680 on the truly egregious grounds of doing his job. 363 00:30:54,680 --> 00:31:00,480 Leaving aside what are equally important discussions around his ability as a physician to treat 364 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,680 patients with Health Canada approved, highly safe and by most accounts, highly effective 365 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:12,160 medications and his right to advocate on behalf of his patients right to choose to not wear 366 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,680 a face covering. 367 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:20,680 I want to focus on the fact that Dr. Phillips has been sanctioned for reporting adverse 368 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:26,840 events experienced by his patients following receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine. 369 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:32,440 Now I'm just going to quote again from a citizens hearing book for a moment. 370 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:38,020 Phillips testified that there are major issues with Canada's current vaccine reporting system. 371 00:31:38,020 --> 00:31:42,060 He has observed many adverse events coming through his emergency department, including 372 00:31:42,060 --> 00:31:48,160 patient profiles that include facial numbness that lasted for eight days, left arm weakness, 373 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:53,760 not able to work and frequently dropping things, abdominal pain and vomiting, heart palpitations, 374 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:59,480 large rash over entire arm and growing arm, numbness and weakness with fatigue could not 375 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:04,740 work, stroke and other causes were ruled out, progression in dementia, no longer talking 376 00:32:04,740 --> 00:32:10,200 had to be hospitalized, severe fever and arm weakness hospitalized two days later, severe 377 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,480 vertigo and tinnitus impairing ability to drive. 378 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,680 Dr. Phillips reported all of these cases to public health, which he must do under the 379 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,120 law. 380 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:25,020 After the first five submissions, Ontario's public health officer sent him a letter. 381 00:32:25,020 --> 00:32:31,660 The letter dated April 27, 2021 read, for your information, all five of the cases do 382 00:32:31,660 --> 00:32:37,680 not meet reported criteria for adverse events following immunization. 383 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,760 Phillips was surprised that all five were rejected. 384 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,320 The PHO then gave him access to a document that went over the criteria for reporting 385 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,720 AEFIs. 386 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:53,960 The single page document listed anesthesia and peristhesia, both of which have to occur 387 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:59,900 within 15 days of the injection or is disqualified. 388 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:05,560 If a patient faints and has an injury, it only counts within 30 minutes of taking the 389 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,280 shot. 390 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,940 This is very limited and is in stark contrast to Health Canada regulations. 391 00:33:11,940 --> 00:33:16,760 They have much broader definitions of adverse events that doctors are obliged to report 392 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,680 in order to be able to maintain safety in pharmaceutical products. 393 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,360 Now this is something that is not exclusive to Canada. 394 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:28,480 I'm sure in the United States and across the world, you've had your own process of learning 395 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,640 what the requirements are on behalf of doctors. 396 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,920 Who holds the liability if they don't report something? 397 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,640 That qualifies as mandatory reporting. 398 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:43,240 It may be different in jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but largely there are responsibilities. 399 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:49,380 At a minimum, there are strong recommendations generally that any adverse events to a pharmaceutical 400 00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:53,760 product of any kind should be reported, even if they're not proven to be caused by the 401 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,280 thing. 402 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:03,760 Now Phillips reiterated in a tweet from December 20, 2022 that his medical license was suspended 403 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,780 in part for reporting adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines. 404 00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:12,880 But don't feel obligated to take his word for it. 405 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:19,320 As reported by CBC News on May 3, 2022, in a statement to CBC News, a spokesperson for 406 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:25,720 the college said that its Investigations, Complaints and Reports Committee, ICRC, ordered 407 00:34:25,720 --> 00:34:28,800 Phillips be handed an interim suspension order. 408 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,840 The committee said Phillips was allegedly, quote, incompetent in relation to his patient 409 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:39,160 care and reporting adverse events following immunization. 410 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,720 That's nuts. 411 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:48,440 Now Dr. Phillips is far from the only doctor who faced retribution for reporting suspected 412 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,760 COVID-19 vaccine injuries. 413 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:55,800 There are also doctors who presumably have successfully reported adverse events following 414 00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:02,080 immunization given the fact that official sources happily admit that some people have 415 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,840 indeed been injured. 416 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:10,360 Here is a snapshot from the Government of Canada claiming that as of March 3, 2023, 417 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:21,640 there were 54,569 adverse events reported, with 10,685 described as serious. 418 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,000 Now we'd have to look at the criteria for what qualifies as serious. 419 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,640 But that's a lot of people. 420 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:36,100 And as is well known by now and is plain to see, this number represents only a fraction 421 00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:42,280 of the true number of adverse events suffered by COVID-19 vaccine recipients, including 422 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,320 the most serious injuries. 423 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:50,000 Dead people can't report for themselves, of course. 424 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,620 Now while the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System in the United States, known widely 425 00:35:55,620 --> 00:36:01,320 as VAERS, while VAERS allows anybody to file a report, assuming they can navigate the clunky 426 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:07,720 and challenging system, Canadians have not been granted such an opportunity throughout 427 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:12,200 the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. 428 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,120 This is absurd on its face. 429 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,960 Why would that not be available to people? 430 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,960 And it's even more shocking than this, it turns out. 431 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:27,440 There are a few things that have just come to light that should truly shock anybody with 432 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,880 any ounce of conscience and intellect. 433 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:38,760 Now I'm going to pull this screen down and I'm going to share another screen. 434 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:44,040 If you hold tight real quick, we're going to jump over here. 435 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:56,480 So as it turns out, all the way up until the COVID-19 era, Canadian consumers could in 436 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:03,160 fact file their own adverse events directly with the Government of Canada. 437 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:04,920 This is a snapshot. 438 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:09,120 The snapshot itself is from September 20th, 2020. 439 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:15,840 And the date modified on the page is December 30th, 2019. 440 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:23,200 And as you see here, the title of the page, Report a Side Effect to a Vaccine, Consumers. 441 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,320 I'll read from the page. 442 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:33,280 Everyone, everyone who witnesses or experiences a side effect adverse reaction following immunization 443 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,600 is strongly encouraged to report it. 444 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:44,540 You may ask your healthcare provider, doctor, healthcare provider, pharmacist to help you. 445 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:50,040 And immediately under this of course is a button, a handy button here that says Report 446 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,240 a Side Effect. 447 00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:54,400 So there's an online process. 448 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,240 To mail your report to a Canada Vigilance Regional Office, use the postage paid label. 449 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:01,080 So indeed you have two options. 450 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:06,960 You can either file online or you can print it out, fill it out by hand and then mail 451 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,440 it at no cost to a so-called Vigilance Regional Office. 452 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,440 And then they talk about what a vaccine is, they have a number of links. 453 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,640 So this is what it used to look like. 454 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:22,880 But then the COVID-19 vaccine rollout started. 455 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,400 We're going to see what it looked like next. 456 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,160 You see the page has changed. 457 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,560 Let's look at that again. 458 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,920 Here's what it looked like before the COVID vaccine rollout. 459 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,120 Here's what it changed to. 460 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,940 The title remains the same, but on this page is now a little different. 461 00:38:42,940 --> 00:38:44,400 What are vaccines? 462 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:50,560 With a slight weird typo, tracking adverse events following immunization. 463 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,680 Everyone who witnesses or experiences a side effect to a vaccine is strongly encouraged 464 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,920 to report it. 465 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:02,760 Ask your healthcare provider, for example, doctor, nurse or pharmacist to complete an 466 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,600 adverse events following immunization form. 467 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,880 Submit it on your behalf to your local public health unit. 468 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,320 Interesting. 469 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,020 So what was you may ask for help. 470 00:39:16,020 --> 00:39:22,280 Now it's you must send it through a healthcare provider. 471 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:30,040 No longer is the button to submit an adverse event using the handy dandy online form present. 472 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,080 Interesting. 473 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,120 Well what are vaccines? 474 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,780 Some given orally, nasally, most by injection. 475 00:39:37,780 --> 00:39:41,460 And then they go on and they've added a bit about tracking adverse events. 476 00:39:41,460 --> 00:39:45,700 Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada share the monitoring of the safety 477 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:48,280 of vaccines in Canada. 478 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,440 So yes, good stuff there. 479 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:51,800 But there's more here. 480 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,720 Pretty interesting. 481 00:39:56,720 --> 00:40:03,320 Manufacturers of all drugs, including vaccines, must report serious adverse reactions in Canada, 482 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,320 unexpected serious adverse reactions in other countries. 483 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:08,400 Interesting. 484 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:13,200 Or unusual failures in efficacy for new drugs in Canada. 485 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,200 Well I suppose we did hear about them, didn't we? 486 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:20,440 But I can't imagine we heard about them at the earliest possible opportunity. 487 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,360 Well we don't have to speculate on that. 488 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,520 But notice there's also this very interesting graph that was added. 489 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,560 Let's see if we can get a closer look. 490 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:33,520 So this is the flow of the chain of custody you might say of an adverse event following 491 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,720 immunization or AFI report. 492 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:43,880 Vaccine recipient talks to their healthcare provider who then submits an initial report 493 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,560 to their local public health unit. 494 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,000 By the way that has to be done by mail now. 495 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,400 You can't submit it online at this point in time anymore, even if you're a healthcare 496 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,240 worker. 497 00:40:56,240 --> 00:41:01,980 And then the local public health unit may choose, assuming the healthcare provider agrees 498 00:41:01,980 --> 00:41:08,120 with the patient, they may choose to submit from the local public health unit to the federal, 499 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:14,320 provincial or territorial immunization authorities, who then themselves will evaluate and decide 500 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:20,860 whether or not to send it on to the Public Health Agency of Canada, who then would be 501 00:41:20,860 --> 00:41:25,600 one of the two final bodies to receive it, because they of course would then share that 502 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,200 with Health Canada. 503 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,800 Now for those who don't know, here's the way this works. 504 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,500 The Public Health Agency of Canada, well let's do it this way. 505 00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:40,240 Health Canada is responsible for the approval, the authorization of products in Canada. 506 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:45,160 And then once that occurs, then the Public Health Agency of Canada develops guidelines 507 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,560 for the use of the approved drugs. 508 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,520 And that's what happened for the COVID-19 vaccines as well, kind of. 509 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,320 And then you see of course market authorization holders, they have to report to Health Canada 510 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:57,880 anything that goes wrong. 511 00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,860 Alright, fantastic. 512 00:41:59,860 --> 00:42:04,640 When was this, when was this changed? 513 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:14,440 Well let's look, the snapshot is from December 27th, 2020, okay. 514 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:21,040 It was changed on December 1st, 2020. 515 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:27,840 Immediately before the first shots were administered in Canada. 516 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:34,920 Now what happened is a colleague of mine, with whom I work on a task force focused on 517 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:42,160 issues like this, had submitted a Freedom of Information request seeking information 518 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,800 about why this change occurred. 519 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:53,160 Why is it that before the COVID-19 vaccine, you could as a consumer, as one might expect 520 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:59,540 you'd be able to, you could submit a report if you were injured by a pharmaceutical product. 521 00:42:59,540 --> 00:43:03,520 It's clear that some people are insisting you kind of have to, or are strongly recommended 522 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:04,520 to. 523 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:11,200 So why, why Health Canada, why Public Health Agency of Canada did you change this? 524 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:17,640 There's a, I believe it's a 60-day deadline in Canada to provide responses to Freedom 525 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,760 of Information requests. 526 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,900 They bypass that multiple times. 527 00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:32,440 So on February, in late February 2023, my colleague said, you know what, I have a different 528 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:33,760 route that I can take. 529 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:39,600 There's multiple ways to access public information in Canada. 530 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:45,280 One of them is through your member of parliament, is a good way to summarize it. 531 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,520 So she indicated that she was going to do that instead. 532 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:54,600 So you know what, you can, you guys aren't going to give this to me. 533 00:43:54,600 --> 00:44:00,160 So as my colleague is discussing with their member of parliament, she pulls up this page 534 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:07,880 again, but notices it has changed yet again. 535 00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:19,280 Let's take a look at how this page looks today. 536 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:24,060 Everyone who witnesses or experiences a side effect to a vaccine is strongly encouraged 537 00:44:24,060 --> 00:44:25,400 to report it. 538 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:30,000 Ask your healthcare provider, for example, Dr. Nurse or Pharmacist 2, complete an adverse 539 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,280 events following immunization form. 540 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:37,800 As you can see, it's a PDF, which would then be printed out and sent in and submitted on 541 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,040 your behalf to local public health unit. 542 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,760 Reports submitted by healthcare providers often contain additional information that 543 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,720 is useful for Health Canada's safety assessment. 544 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:53,080 If you are unable to report adverse reactions through a healthcare provider, or if you prefer 545 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:59,320 to report directly to Health Canada, well, look at that, ladies and gentlemen, the button 546 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:00,480 is back. 547 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:06,040 You can now report a side effect to Health Canada again. 548 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:15,540 Only online or using the mail, and it does not have to go through the healthcare provider. 549 00:45:15,540 --> 00:45:18,560 What else has changed? 550 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,960 Well, there's this diagram again. 551 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,720 Now let's see, what did that diagram used to look like? 552 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:27,720 Okay, there's that. 553 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:30,760 Now let's jump back over here and it's clearly different. 554 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,800 So let's zoom in and see the specifics. 555 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,280 You have the vaccine recipient. 556 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,640 You also have the vaccine recipient here. 557 00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,680 So it looks as though you can submit multiple ways. 558 00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,400 In fact, three different ways you can submit to your healthcare provider. 559 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,620 And wouldn't you know it, there's a little message right under here. 560 00:45:50,620 --> 00:46:07,000 It reads, in many provinces and territories, healthcare providers must report by law. 561 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:15,000 Exactly as Dr. Patrick Phillips did and was sanctioned for. 562 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,080 And yes, they then submit through the yada yada. 563 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:21,880 So that's if you want to go that route, but you can of course also submit to Health Canada 564 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,320 directly if you are the vaccine recipient. 565 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,360 And as previously described, you can also submit directly to Pfizer or directly to Moderna, 566 00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,960 whoever it is, whose ever product you've taken. 567 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,880 Now here's the question, ladies and gentlemen. 568 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,280 When was this changed? 569 00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:52,120 It was changed on February 28th, 2023. 570 00:46:52,120 --> 00:47:02,220 The same day my colleague last emailed the Freedom of Information people responsible 571 00:47:02,220 --> 00:47:08,280 for getting her the answer as to why this had changed in the first place. 572 00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:13,560 This was the last day, the day on which they were informed that she would be pursuing the 573 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:19,960 same information, perhaps embarrassing information through another source where she would likely 574 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:24,180 have much better luck. 575 00:47:24,180 --> 00:47:26,580 How can this be explained? 576 00:47:26,580 --> 00:47:37,280 How can it be that for the entirety of the COVID era as far as vaccines being available, 577 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:44,240 the entire COVID-19 vaccine rollout, which one might say is essentially over, how can 578 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:51,160 it be without any other explanation that it was made tremendously difficult for people 579 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:55,340 to report COVID-19 vaccine injuries? 580 00:47:55,340 --> 00:48:02,680 How is it that this was the most robust safety monitoring that any agency has ever undertook, 581 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:08,760 which I believe is how the FDA has framed it, or the CDC perhaps? 582 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:17,440 How can it be that doctors are legally required to report and yet when they do, they are sanctioned, 583 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:27,880 labeled, tarred and feathered, defamed? 584 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:40,080 How can it be that the people who walked out, or perhaps that's not even the correct word 585 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:47,580 for some, how could they be left? 586 00:48:47,580 --> 00:48:55,240 How could a choice have been made to make it as hard as possible to put as many barriers 587 00:48:55,240 --> 00:49:04,000 as possible in place between them and simply an acknowledgement, simply an opportunity 588 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:11,040 to talk to someone, to tell someone on the record, I believe I've had an injury to this 589 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,920 pharmaceutical product. 590 00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:24,380 And then when they go through their healthcare provider, they're told it takes too long. 591 00:49:24,380 --> 00:49:26,380 It costs too much money. 592 00:49:26,380 --> 00:49:29,960 I can't, I've been told not to file adverse event reports. 593 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,360 I have a colleague who was just sanctioned for doing so. 594 00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,960 There are no adverse events to these shots. 595 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:43,680 Pick your poison. 596 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:49,680 I don't know about you, but this is weird to me. 597 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:57,080 And I called it a smoking gun. 598 00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,840 I suppose we'll see. 599 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:08,960 And as a summary, what this looks like to me is the government of Canada planned from 600 00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:19,200 the get-go to cover their ears and go la la la la la for the entirety of the COVID-19 601 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:20,640 vaccine rollout. 602 00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:29,200 And I guess now they decided that they were under too much scrutiny or something, something 603 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:30,480 has changed. 604 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,560 I won't even speculate as to what it could be. 605 00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:37,840 I suppose something changed and now you can report again. 606 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:48,360 So I guess what I'm going to end with is all of that considered. 607 00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,600 I'm not sure how to feel about this. 608 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:57,760 The World Health Organization downgrades COVID pandemic says it's no longer a global emergency. 609 00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:08,560 I don't exactly celebrate this. 610 00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:13,120 I don't feel like this is good news. 611 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,240 I don't think they're wrong. 612 00:51:15,240 --> 00:51:23,760 I don't think COVID-19 has been a public health emergency, possibly ever. 613 00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:33,320 But it certainly has not been a public health emergency since March 2020. 614 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,640 I'll give you two weeks. 615 00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:39,040 In retrospect, I'll give you two weeks. 616 00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:40,520 It was a mistake. 617 00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:48,400 People, there were people who knew it would be a mistake, but most people could be excused. 618 00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:49,960 Not the second time. 619 00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:55,420 Not the third, fourth, fifth time. 620 00:51:55,420 --> 00:51:58,520 The emergency is not over. 621 00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:06,240 I think it's very clear to most people we have not ended an era of suffering directly 622 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:22,000 related to actions taken in response to the declaration of a pandemic for COVID. 623 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:26,620 I wish I could offer more in terms of celebration that the World Health Organization has given 624 00:52:26,620 --> 00:52:29,300 their stamp of approval to that wrapping up. 625 00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:31,640 People can travel in Canada again. 626 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:37,480 People can very shortly go to the States if they're considered an unvaccinated person. 627 00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:42,640 The public health emergency and the national emergency and all that are going away. 628 00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:49,720 Well, some of them are just being suspended. 629 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:56,240 I wish I felt like it was appropriate to take a victory lap, but I don't. 630 00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:06,680 And I suppose I'll end it like this. 631 00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:14,800 I have never seen so many people ready to listen to others. 632 00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:20,640 I've never seen so many people ready to learn new things. 633 00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:26,280 My partner Sam was able to tell her family that I participated in the National Citizens 634 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,760 Inquiry and they genuinely appeared interested. 635 00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,720 Perhaps they always would have been, but I know I would have been too scared to tell 636 00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:37,280 them six months ago. 637 00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:47,280 So let me know in your life, where can we find the positivity? 638 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,120 Where can we find the light? 639 00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:53,040 Because if this isn't over, then that means there's a lot of people who need a lot of 640 00:53:53,040 --> 00:54:02,600 other people to be good and positive and simply ready to keep listening and talking. 641 00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:07,640 And you guys, everybody who's been tuning in since the start of the Rounding the Earth 642 00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:16,920 podcast, which is coming up on a year ago, you have helped make this place a place where 643 00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:23,360 we can hear and share and talk and listen and debate and disagree. 644 00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:30,120 And I've heard from people who they've noticed that and it has made an impact in at least 645 00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:31,880 some people's lives. 646 00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,920 And it couldn't happen without all of you, because otherwise it would just be me or me 647 00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:42,800 and Matthew or just Matthew talking into blank internet. 648 00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:49,800 So we did this together and whatever it is we do now in our lives in this particular 649 00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:53,180 cause, we continue to do it together. 650 00:54:53,180 --> 00:54:56,560 So thank you. 651 00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:02,600 This has been an interesting one. 652 00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:06,360 But thank you all for watching this episode of Rounding the Earth. 653 00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:11,920 I'm going to get my little presentation back up here real quick to give us our fun little 654 00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:17,480 outro to say on the subject of community. 655 00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:22,720 If you want to join a very specific community, the rounding newyork.locals.com community 656 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:24,140 is one of the best. 657 00:55:24,140 --> 00:55:27,800 You can go there, keep up to date with everything we're doing, conversations just like this 658 00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:33,640 one and occasionally disagreements. 659 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:41,260 And you can also use it as a place to support the show financially, which I can't under 660 00:55:41,260 --> 00:55:46,240 express how thankful I am for those of you who choose to do so. 661 00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:53,120 And there are a lot of you and it does allow me to spend time, very valuable time doing 662 00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:55,240 very valuable things. 663 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:57,920 And I appreciate that very much. 664 00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:05,920 And it's any opportunity to come together with people ready to learn and argue is a 665 00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:06,920 good place to be. 666 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:09,360 And roundingtheearth.locals.com is one such place. 667 00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:16,240 And it all started of course with roundingtheearth.substack.com where Matthew continues to write provocative, 668 00:56:16,240 --> 00:56:19,920 well thought out, well researched and tremendously interesting pieces. 669 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,320 And I highly recommend you subscribe there if you haven't already. 670 00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:25,320 Last but not least, I have been Liam Sturgis. 671 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:31,880 I'm a musician and you can find me at liamsturgis.com and one day I'd like to go back to being on 672 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:33,280 stage. 673 00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,140 That's one of the things I'm fighting for. 674 00:56:35,140 --> 00:56:37,440 So thank you for helping fight for that with me. 675 00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:42,240 I hope you all have an absolutely fantastic rest of your afternoon or evening or wherever 676 00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:44,680 it is you are in the world or whatever time it is. 677 00:56:44,680 --> 00:57:10,920 Just know you are never alone.