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As always this week is overflowing with tremendously interesting things that have happened.
And I'm going to just very briefly cover a couple of them before we dive into the main
topic.
So you may have heard that over in Russia, the Kremlin was struck by two different drones.
Understand that the Kremlin is like the White House.
It's like parliament.
It's the building that is the head of the government of Russia.
And there's a lot of the fog of war surrounding this story.
Just understand the severity of the allegations being made though.
Now of course there's a possibility this entire thing is fake, but let's assume that indeed
there were drones that struck the Kremlin.
Well you've got Russia who has come out and accused Ukraine, I believe as a surrogate
for the United States, as having attempted to assassinate Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
Now I don't know what evidence they provided thus far.
This is an unfolding story, but I just wanted to share a couple of headlines as I found
them that sort of paint a picture on how the West, quote unquote, our side is reacting
to this.
You have false flag?
Journalists say Russia likely staged Kremlin drone attack it blamed on Ukraine and the
West.
Now understand what is being suggested there and understand once again that this is equivalent
to the White House or to Canadian parliament being attacked.
And if the suggestion here is that Russia would conduct an attack on its own capital,
well isn't that interesting?
I suppose that affirms the premise that the United States government might conduct a false
flag attack on its own capital.
Perhaps the capital itself.
Of course the equivalent being the White House and that's not quite what happened on January
6th for example.
Or for example a staged attack on Canadian parliament.
The point is these are not assertions that would be made lightly in reverse.
So it is interesting to see that that is in fact the analysis being put forward.
Now perhaps there's some interesting discussion to be had there.
I'm not sure.
But another headline, Russia is canceling Victory Day celebrations to hide its military
losses and is using alleged Kremlin drone strike as an excuse, experts say.
So I'll be curious to see who these analysts and experts are when I have a little more
time to pursue that this evening.
I did want to direct you however to a discussion I thought was very informative, very productive,
even if it is speculative.
And this was held by the Duran.
They had a live stream titled Let's Talk About Drones Hitting the Kremlin.
This is Alexander, Alex and Alexander, I can't remember their last names, of the Duran.
And a friendly reminder that all of these will be available in the show notes once I
complete them and publish them shortly after this video today.
So that's that's the craziness of Russia and Ukraine.
But unfortunately, things continue to be crazy over in the nation of France.
We haven't talked about this very much.
But you may have heard that, well, people aren't very happy with one Emmanuel Macron,
who fairly recently pushed through by dictate a reform to to retirement or to to pension.
And the details of this, of course, are not my area of expertise.
However, it's quite clear the French people are not happy.
They weren't happy before they weren't likely to support this new change to pension law.
And that is, in fact, apparently why the Macron government decided to push through by such
heavy handed dictate.
And the result is protests across the country, which have been going on, I believe, virtually
every day for weeks now.
And the headline from France 24 that I had pulled up is Independent Report slams indiscriminate
arrests at French pension protests.
So apparently they're indiscriminate arrests.
Now thankfully, in Canada, we're not dealing with with violence of any kind.
No, in fact, we're dealing simply with protests.
Now this is very relevant for more reasons than some people may think.
So federal employees strike continues to shut down Canada.
Now stop me if you've heard this one before.
Now, employees of the government of Canada, for those who don't know, are on strike.
And a lot of them are still on strike, effectively shutting down aspects of the country in the
process, shutting down the ability for parts of the country to function.
On April 7, 2023, the Public Service Alliance of Canada announced that its membership of
Canada Revenue Agency employees voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action on behalf
of 35,000 workers represented by the Union of Taxation Employees and the Public Service
Alliance of Canada.
And they were joined on April 12 by a second group called the Treasury Board.
Okay, so it's not just tax employees, but they are a large portion of that strike.
As has been widely noted, of course, the decision to go on strike at this exact moment makes
life very difficult for Canadians given that the tax deadline, the deadline to file your
federal income tax was May 1.
And for whatever reason, calls to extend that deadline for this year have been entirely
dismissed.
No one wants to hear it.
Now there was some headline news that had people thinking maybe this had been resolved.
But no, while the Treasury Board staff managed to strike a deal with the government on May
1, the Canada Revenue Agency employees were not included in that deal and remain on strike.
As a result, according to Global News, I quote, UTE National President Marc Briere told reporters
Wednesday, it's been a rough couple of weeks for taxpayers and those who help them file,
and the effects of the strike would be long lasting.
They went through a hell of a time, and I think that some people are late.
So there's an impact and there will be a big backlog, he said.
There's already a backlog, but if the strike doesn't get resolved, it's going to be a
tremendous backlog at the CRA.
So this goes without saying, and the point is, it's not just the people who process the
returns once they're in, it's also the people who help Canadians file their taxes.
I just want to point out, it seems we've got a wonderful robust discussion going on in
the locals chat.
That's absolutely fantastic.
Thank you all.
I will read these after the episode, but continue to discuss away.
And I'll lots of protests in Israel too.
I don't know the details, but just another example of people protesting.
Jen, thank you actually for contributing that.
That is very true, and I believe it has to do with Netanyahu attempting to do something
that is unpopular, but I do not remember.
Anyway, moving on, the demands set out.
What are they asking for?
So the demand set out by the PSAC, Public Servants Alliance of Canada, in their strike
action began with asking for a 13.5% raise in order to match inflation.
Can you believe inflation officially is apparently 13.5%?
As well as the flexibility to work remotely, the reduction of the government's use of
outside contractors and the implementation of seniority rules in the event of layoffs.
So look, aside from the very real difficulties caused to Canadian citizens by the mere act
of the CRA going on strike, the PSAC has celebrated the actions by the picketers to, quote, shut
down critical infrastructure across the country completely unrelated to taxation.
In one such thread, discussing their various escalated strike actions, the PSAC boasted
that they had shut down the ports of Vancouver, Montreal, and St. John's, blockaded the Treasury
Board office in Ottawa, and other strategic locations from coast to coast.
Now, while the right to go on strike, as far as I can tell, is fundamental to liberal democracy
as we have it here in Canada, many incredulous onlookers are pointing out the utter hypocrisy
highlighted by this particular action as compared to the violent response to the Freedom Convoy
2022 protest in Ottawa.
And related protests, of course, across Canada, which remember, they were accused of blockading
critical infrastructure and shutting down border crossings, which this protest is doing
at significantly higher levels.
The example of a tweet I provided here from someone replying, send the cavalry, freeze
bank accounts, and throw them in jail.
Now, I read that as sarcasm.
That's a very valid point.
Realistically, the takeaway message here is not that the CRA employees on strike are crossing
a line by going on strike or engaging in these strike related actions.
Although I suppose one could argue even this is going too far.
I'm not sure.
Maybe it comes down to matter of opinion.
But instead, this serves, I believe, as a reminder that such actions to disrupt the
status quo of the day to day of government operations is not at all unexpected in a strike
action like this.
Let this serve, perhaps, then, as an opportunity to revisit the unlawful and authoritarian response
to the Freedom Convoy once again.
And to remind those around us of the absurdity highlighted by the drastic contrast in institutional
treatment of the two.
On the other hand, one can't help but wonder if there are details not far below the surface
that may shed light on matters.
I wonder how many times I've used that line.
Well, PSAC, I learned, is partnered with the Canadian Labour Congress.
In fact, I believe it is part of the Canadian Labour Congress, as well as the Association
of Public Service Alliance Retirees.
Now, as it turns out, I had previously stumbled on this Canadian Labour Congress in research
into an initiative called Faster Together, of which the Canadian Labour Congress is a
partner.
Now, Faster Together describes itself as, quote, a voluntary effort of a wide variety
of people working together to promote COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and help speed a recovery
from this pandemic.
FasterTogether.ca, go check them out.
Well, other partners of this COVID-19 vaccine promotion initiative, in their words, are
employers from across Canada.
This includes the country's universities, labour unions, trade associations, sports
teams, cities, towns, district municipalities, banks, insurance companies, you name it.
Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, they're all there.
The biotechnology industry is also well represented by their own industry association, Biotech
Canada, as well as the Pfizer and or Moderna, depending on the organization, funded 19
to 0, the Bioscience Association Manitoba and Life Sciences British Columbia.
So maybe I'm overestimating the impact of the lobby, call it the pharmaceutical lobby,
call it the pro-COVID agenda lobby, I don't care.
But there's a lobby there.
And it could be that I'm overestimating the impact that it could have or did have in an
extended network like this.
On the other hand, perhaps it is not so surprising after all that one of these groups of federally
regulated employees receive better treatment than the other, especially given that one
was protesting the forced, coerced, mandatory acceptance of this particular pharmaceutical
product.
Anyway, on the note of things not going so hot in Canada on that front, the National
Citizens Inquiry in Vancouver.
So from Tuesday to Thursday this week, the National Citizens Inquiry or NCI made its
stop in Langley, British Columbia, just outside of Vancouver for the Vancouver arm of the
national tour.
For those unaware, the NCI is a non-governmental, citizen-run and self-funded or investigation
campaign you might say, looking into Canada's handling of the declared COVID-19 pandemic,
hearing testimony from hundreds of professionals and everyday citizens.
I, myself, I was personally able to attend days one and three, hearing firsthand some
of the most impressive and impactful stories and presentations that have come out of the
last three years.
Now I have on screen just a sampling of those presentations.
Top left we have Matthew Evans-Cockle, top right we have Deanna MacLeod, bottom left
is me and bottom right is Gail Davidson.
I highly recommend going and watching each of them.
Matthew talked a bit about conflicts of interest and the way that our universities, the way
we think of them versus what they actually do, the ideological and financial conflicts
there.
It was tremendously interesting.
Deanna revisited the Pfizer inoculations do more harm than good video that went so viral
and got Dr. Robert Malone kicked off Twitter that exposed that even the clinical trials
run for the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed quite literally that the products cause
more harm than good before they were even rolled out to the rest of the world.
I talked a little bit about, well I'll explain in a second, and Gail talked about the international
human right obligations that Canada has failed to meet and in fact most countries around
the world have failed to meet.
And it presented a really interesting conundrum that perhaps we'll revisit another time.
I highly recommend watching.
Now some of you may recall, so why was I there?
I'm no expert.
Some of you may recall in June of 2022 I was invited to participate in an event titled
a citizens hearing in Toronto Ontario.
My flight left Vancouver mere hours after the federal restriction on travel for citizens
deemed to be unvaccinated, whatever that means, was suspended.
In my role as secretary, I had the honour as you can see of sitting beside Preston Manning,
Susan Natsche and David Ross who served as the panel for a citizens hearing.
My specific job was to take notes, which I frantically did while listening to the in-person
and online testimonies.
My fingers have never hurt so much, but it was well worth it.
And just as an aside, for those who followed the Corbett Report, you may have seen James
Corbett's recent interview with NCI spokesperson Michel LeDuc-Catlin.
Oh I don't even know how to pronounce that.
Now the thumbnail for the video, part of Corbett's Solutions Watch series, features the NCI in
the top two quadrants and interestingly a citizens hearing in the bottom two.
I was proud and ecstatic to find that I am in that thumbnail as it felt like a surefire
sign that my contributions to this cause have been valuable and valued.
And as a Corbett Report community member myself, it was very exciting to be acknowledged even
in this very passive way.
So thank you James.
And I know why he did that, it's because these pictures are featured on the National
Citizens Inquiry website as part of the story of how the NCI came to be.
Now this event, the National Citizens, or rather the citizens hearing was the first
opportunity that I had to meet in real life people who would become good friends over
the internet since mid-2021 and just as notably to place myself right in front of people who
have suffered the physical consequences of the all too common adverse events from the
various COVID-19 vaccine products that they were coerced into taking.
Some might say forced.
It was no longer just a matter of numbers as reported by my friends at Open VAERS and
Welcome the Eagle 88 reporting on the new VAERS drops every Friday.
It was a matter of eye contact with people who may never return to their former selves.
Of course the inverse is also true.
Through their suffering it was clear to me that these everyday people had become extraordinary
by refusing to go gently into that good night.
Truthfully I imagined that they were always extraordinary and it was through this tragic
and avoidable suffering that they have demonstrated to themselves how powerful they really are.
These are victims in one sense but so too are they the heroes in this story.
So what then?
So as a citizens hearing completed and a next steps task force went about planning what
would become the National Citizens Inquiry it became clear that no one opportunity to
share stories would successfully cement them into history at least not everybody.
And as we know as newly minted celebrities like Steve Kirsch, Jessica Rose, Robert Malone
and long established names like Jordan Peterson and James Corbett as they all stepped into
the spotlight for their NCI testimonies.
Many others would inevitably not be selected to testify for a second time.
Now that's primarily a matter of logistics.
There are truly only so many hours in the week and a limited wealth with which to rent
conference rooms and hire audio visual teams.
In some cases I imagine someone's story may not be deemed sensational enough in order
to advance the larger agenda of shocking our friends, family members and neighbors to attention
which we certainly need to do.
These are reasonable choices that have to be made and the result is that some of those
names will be lost to time as the rest of the world moves on.
Even if it is that they're moving on to the next such opportunity to hear stories.
I can't stop that none of us can stop that and that's that's the nature of history.
The grains of sand.
The grains of sand in time.
That one way I thought I might be able to help minimize this effect and just simply
to capture and document the history is by translating the testimonies presented at a
citizen's hearing into a format a written format which could be more easily handed to
friends and family and elected officials who otherwise might decline to visit a website.
For example they're tired of getting your emails.
Furthermore as I learned from Sonia Anderson who organized the citizens hearing and my
colleague Lisa of the Canadian COVID Care Alliance a book of course can be submitted
to Library and Archives Canada or the Library of Congress if you're in the United States
to be included in the nation's official record.
And so that's what I did.
The official report from a citizens hearing is now available for all and I want to be
very clear I'm not here to sell you anything.
It's available for all in digital form for free and yes it is as well available in paperback
hardcover and ebook through Amazon.
Now I know that many people take issue with Amazon as do I.
And by the way here's here is my copy of the hardcover that I purchased.
The paperbacks are slightly better formatted but the reason we went with Amazon in this
instance is that it was likely the only way we could have physical copies printed without
asking for a significant down payment for printing costs from the Canadian COVID Care
Alliance who had already dispensed tens of thousands of dollars in donations to set up
the event in the first place.
What Amazon does is it allows us to offer the book through a print on demand through
print on demand which is a service which does not yet as far as I can tell seem to have
a more independent alternative.
There was talk of reaching out to Children's Health Defence and their CHD books to ask
if they would publish the book for us and perhaps it's not too late to explore that
option if they'll have us.
But for now we have accomplished at least part of our mission and Jen Slavin notes that
she has a copy as well and yes I remember well when she bought it I was very excited
she was among the first.
So thank you again and to be clear all of the proceeds the profit that comes in from
the books go to the Canadian COVID Care Alliance to continue to use them for non-profit purposes
to continue advocating and producing materials all the stuff you would want an organization
like the CCCA to be doing.
So we've accomplished at least part of our mission.
Susan Natsche who I wrote the executive summary of the book with in fact she wrote most of
it I simply formatted that part and as well as David Ross the executive director of the
CCCA they suggested that I present the report as evidence for the NCI's on record and that
is what I did.
My entire testimony from Thursday May 4th has been clipped and uploaded clipped by my
friend Gabriel at Libre Solutions Network big thank you and I took that and I've uploaded
that so far to my YouTube channel and I'm going to upload that to rumble and to all
the other rounding the earth channels as well and I thought about playing it here but you
know what we're going to have the opportunity to do that at a later date because there is
more there is more to look at today because as time remains a restriction on us all I
wasn't able to do what I really wanted to do which is to read the names of the brave
Canadians who provided testimony at a citizens hearing.
I tried we ran out of time so when you watch the video you're not going to see that but
I'm very proud to do that now so I'm going to turn to the end of my copy here.
So the Canadian COVID Care Alliance extends its deepest gratitude to all those who provided
testimony during a citizens hearing Chief Hugh Okogi, Dean Allison, Bo Bedard, Kayla
Bishop, Miriam Bohemier, Louis Brown, Sean Buckley, Colin Carey, Dr. Frances Christian,
April Crocker, Max Daigle, Arlene Dotto, Gail Davidson, Annabel Edge, Karen Epstein-Gilboa,
Ryan Gassner, Jen Gilbert and Jessie, Richard Gergis, Leighton Gray, Maria Gucci, Lindy
Hall, Dan Hartman, Greg Hill, Dr. York Shung, Brooke Jackson, Kayla Jones, James Kitchen,
Karen Cobel, Brian Cranky, Janina Cranky, Henry Lu, Officer Andrew McGillivray, Scarlett
Martin, Deanna McLeod, Dr. Chris Milburn, Nicole Minnican, Tanya Minnican, Sergio Molina,
Kelly Sue Oberle, Dr. Eric Payne, Dr. Steven Pellick, Beverly Pearley, Dr. Patrick Phillips,
Gordon Polivoy, Dr. Julie Panessi, Sam Presvelos, Maralina Repo, Padre Harold Risto, Alan Rubin,
Dr. Richard Chabas, Chris Schaeffer, David Shaw, Josh Schulman, Leslie Smith, Irvin Studen,
Susan Vander Rassel, Audrey Vanderhook, Steve Van Leeuwen, Haley Weinrout, Jayden Weinrout,
Maydeen Wilson, and Dr. Chong Wang.
Let their names not be forgotten.
And many of them are continuing to fight and that's the best part.
Many did, many did get the opportunity to speak again at the NCI, particularly the professionals.
And it goes without saying, the most effort will need to go into the non-professionals
in terms of keeping their names in everyone's heads.
So let's hope, let's hope that this has done some of that.
But you know, well, and last but not least, I just want to add that all of their individual
testimonies can be found at citizenshearing.ca and they will be up there for as long as the
internet exists as far as I'm concerned.
So if you are curious, you can go and if you can sacrifice the time, you won't regret it,
though it may not be easy.
But there's some practical action and practical knowledge that we can take from this process
because something rather interesting has happened, has come to light, you might say.
But I'm going to direct our attention to the testimony of Dr. Patrick Phillips of Ontario,
Canada.
As summarized in his presentation at a citizens hearing in June 2022 and as reiterated again
during his national citizens inquiry testimony, Dr. Phillips has had his medical license suspended
on the truly egregious grounds of doing his job.
Leaving aside what are equally important discussions around his ability as a physician to treat
patients with Health Canada approved, highly safe and by most accounts, highly effective
medications and his right to advocate on behalf of his patients right to choose to not wear
a face covering.
I want to focus on the fact that Dr. Phillips has been sanctioned for reporting adverse
events experienced by his patients following receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Now I'm just going to quote again from a citizens hearing book for a moment.
Phillips testified that there are major issues with Canada's current vaccine reporting system.
He has observed many adverse events coming through his emergency department, including
patient profiles that include facial numbness that lasted for eight days, left arm weakness,
not able to work and frequently dropping things, abdominal pain and vomiting, heart palpitations,
large rash over entire arm and growing arm, numbness and weakness with fatigue could not
work, stroke and other causes were ruled out, progression in dementia, no longer talking
had to be hospitalized, severe fever and arm weakness hospitalized two days later, severe
vertigo and tinnitus impairing ability to drive.
Dr. Phillips reported all of these cases to public health, which he must do under the
law.
After the first five submissions, Ontario's public health officer sent him a letter.
The letter dated April 27, 2021 read, for your information, all five of the cases do
not meet reported criteria for adverse events following immunization.
Phillips was surprised that all five were rejected.
The PHO then gave him access to a document that went over the criteria for reporting
AEFIs.
The single page document listed anesthesia and peristhesia, both of which have to occur
within 15 days of the injection or is disqualified.
If a patient faints and has an injury, it only counts within 30 minutes of taking the
shot.
This is very limited and is in stark contrast to Health Canada regulations.
They have much broader definitions of adverse events that doctors are obliged to report
in order to be able to maintain safety in pharmaceutical products.
Now this is something that is not exclusive to Canada.
I'm sure in the United States and across the world, you've had your own process of learning
what the requirements are on behalf of doctors.
Who holds the liability if they don't report something?
That qualifies as mandatory reporting.
It may be different in jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but largely there are responsibilities.
At a minimum, there are strong recommendations generally that any adverse events to a pharmaceutical
product of any kind should be reported, even if they're not proven to be caused by the
thing.
Now Phillips reiterated in a tweet from December 20, 2022 that his medical license was suspended
in part for reporting adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines.
But don't feel obligated to take his word for it.
As reported by CBC News on May 3, 2022, in a statement to CBC News, a spokesperson for
the college said that its Investigations, Complaints and Reports Committee, ICRC, ordered
Phillips be handed an interim suspension order.
The committee said Phillips was allegedly, quote, incompetent in relation to his patient
care and reporting adverse events following immunization.
That's nuts.
Now Dr. Phillips is far from the only doctor who faced retribution for reporting suspected
COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
There are also doctors who presumably have successfully reported adverse events following
immunization given the fact that official sources happily admit that some people have
indeed been injured.
Here is a snapshot from the Government of Canada claiming that as of March 3, 2023,
there were 54,569 adverse events reported, with 10,685 described as serious.
Now we'd have to look at the criteria for what qualifies as serious.
But that's a lot of people.
And as is well known by now and is plain to see, this number represents only a fraction
of the true number of adverse events suffered by COVID-19 vaccine recipients, including
the most serious injuries.
Dead people can't report for themselves, of course.
Now while the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System in the United States, known widely
as VAERS, while VAERS allows anybody to file a report, assuming they can navigate the clunky
and challenging system, Canadians have not been granted such an opportunity throughout
the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
This is absurd on its face.
Why would that not be available to people?
And it's even more shocking than this, it turns out.
There are a few things that have just come to light that should truly shock anybody with
any ounce of conscience and intellect.
Now I'm going to pull this screen down and I'm going to share another screen.
If you hold tight real quick, we're going to jump over here.
So as it turns out, all the way up until the COVID-19 era, Canadian consumers could in
fact file their own adverse events directly with the Government of Canada.
This is a snapshot.
The snapshot itself is from September 20th, 2020.
And the date modified on the page is December 30th, 2019.
And as you see here, the title of the page, Report a Side Effect to a Vaccine, Consumers.
I'll read from the page.
Everyone, everyone who witnesses or experiences a side effect adverse reaction following immunization
is strongly encouraged to report it.
You may ask your healthcare provider, doctor, healthcare provider, pharmacist to help you.
And immediately under this of course is a button, a handy button here that says Report
a Side Effect.
So there's an online process.
To mail your report to a Canada Vigilance Regional Office, use the postage paid label.
So indeed you have two options.
You can either file online or you can print it out, fill it out by hand and then mail
it at no cost to a so-called Vigilance Regional Office.
And then they talk about what a vaccine is, they have a number of links.
So this is what it used to look like.
But then the COVID-19 vaccine rollout started.
We're going to see what it looked like next.
You see the page has changed.
Let's look at that again.
Here's what it looked like before the COVID vaccine rollout.
Here's what it changed to.
The title remains the same, but on this page is now a little different.
What are vaccines?
With a slight weird typo, tracking adverse events following immunization.
Everyone who witnesses or experiences a side effect to a vaccine is strongly encouraged
to report it.
Ask your healthcare provider, for example, doctor, nurse or pharmacist to complete an
adverse events following immunization form.
Submit it on your behalf to your local public health unit.
Interesting.
So what was you may ask for help.
Now it's you must send it through a healthcare provider.
No longer is the button to submit an adverse event using the handy dandy online form present.
Interesting.
Well what are vaccines?
Some given orally, nasally, most by injection.
And then they go on and they've added a bit about tracking adverse events.
Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada share the monitoring of the safety
of vaccines in Canada.
So yes, good stuff there.
But there's more here.
Pretty interesting.
Manufacturers of all drugs, including vaccines, must report serious adverse reactions in Canada,
unexpected serious adverse reactions in other countries.
Interesting.
Or unusual failures in efficacy for new drugs in Canada.
Well I suppose we did hear about them, didn't we?
But I can't imagine we heard about them at the earliest possible opportunity.
Well we don't have to speculate on that.
But notice there's also this very interesting graph that was added.
Let's see if we can get a closer look.
So this is the flow of the chain of custody you might say of an adverse event following
immunization or AFI report.
Vaccine recipient talks to their healthcare provider who then submits an initial report
to their local public health unit.
By the way that has to be done by mail now.
You can't submit it online at this point in time anymore, even if you're a healthcare
worker.
And then the local public health unit may choose, assuming the healthcare provider agrees
with the patient, they may choose to submit from the local public health unit to the federal,
provincial or territorial immunization authorities, who then themselves will evaluate and decide
whether or not to send it on to the Public Health Agency of Canada, who then would be
one of the two final bodies to receive it, because they of course would then share that
with Health Canada.
Now for those who don't know, here's the way this works.
The Public Health Agency of Canada, well let's do it this way.
Health Canada is responsible for the approval, the authorization of products in Canada.
And then once that occurs, then the Public Health Agency of Canada develops guidelines
for the use of the approved drugs.
And that's what happened for the COVID-19 vaccines as well, kind of.
And then you see of course market authorization holders, they have to report to Health Canada
anything that goes wrong.
Alright, fantastic.
When was this, when was this changed?
Well let's look, the snapshot is from December 27th, 2020, okay.
It was changed on December 1st, 2020.
Immediately before the first shots were administered in Canada.
Now what happened is a colleague of mine, with whom I work on a task force focused on
issues like this, had submitted a Freedom of Information request seeking information
about why this change occurred.
Why is it that before the COVID-19 vaccine, you could as a consumer, as one might expect
you'd be able to, you could submit a report if you were injured by a pharmaceutical product.
It's clear that some people are insisting you kind of have to, or are strongly recommended
to.
So why, why Health Canada, why Public Health Agency of Canada did you change this?
There's a, I believe it's a 60-day deadline in Canada to provide responses to Freedom
of Information requests.
They bypass that multiple times.
So on February, in late February 2023, my colleague said, you know what, I have a different
route that I can take.
There's multiple ways to access public information in Canada.
One of them is through your member of parliament, is a good way to summarize it.
So she indicated that she was going to do that instead.
So you know what, you can, you guys aren't going to give this to me.
So as my colleague is discussing with their member of parliament, she pulls up this page
again, but notices it has changed yet again.
Let's take a look at how this page looks today.
Everyone who witnesses or experiences a side effect to a vaccine is strongly encouraged
to report it.
Ask your healthcare provider, for example, Dr. Nurse or Pharmacist 2, complete an adverse
events following immunization form.
As you can see, it's a PDF, which would then be printed out and sent in and submitted on
your behalf to local public health unit.
Reports submitted by healthcare providers often contain additional information that
is useful for Health Canada's safety assessment.
If you are unable to report adverse reactions through a healthcare provider, or if you prefer
to report directly to Health Canada, well, look at that, ladies and gentlemen, the button
is back.
You can now report a side effect to Health Canada again.
Only online or using the mail, and it does not have to go through the healthcare provider.
What else has changed?
Well, there's this diagram again.
Now let's see, what did that diagram used to look like?
Okay, there's that.
Now let's jump back over here and it's clearly different.
So let's zoom in and see the specifics.
You have the vaccine recipient.
You also have the vaccine recipient here.
So it looks as though you can submit multiple ways.
In fact, three different ways you can submit to your healthcare provider.
And wouldn't you know it, there's a little message right under here.
It reads, in many provinces and territories, healthcare providers must report by law.
Exactly as Dr. Patrick Phillips did and was sanctioned for.
And yes, they then submit through the yada yada.
So that's if you want to go that route, but you can of course also submit to Health Canada
directly if you are the vaccine recipient.
And as previously described, you can also submit directly to Pfizer or directly to Moderna,
whoever it is, whose ever product you've taken.
Now here's the question, ladies and gentlemen.
When was this changed?
It was changed on February 28th, 2023.
The same day my colleague last emailed the Freedom of Information people responsible
for getting her the answer as to why this had changed in the first place.
This was the last day, the day on which they were informed that she would be pursuing the
same information, perhaps embarrassing information through another source where she would likely
have much better luck.
How can this be explained?
How can it be that for the entirety of the COVID era as far as vaccines being available,
the entire COVID-19 vaccine rollout, which one might say is essentially over, how can
it be without any other explanation that it was made tremendously difficult for people
to report COVID-19 vaccine injuries?
How is it that this was the most robust safety monitoring that any agency has ever undertook,
which I believe is how the FDA has framed it, or the CDC perhaps?
How can it be that doctors are legally required to report and yet when they do, they are sanctioned,
labeled, tarred and feathered, defamed?
How can it be that the people who walked out, or perhaps that's not even the correct word
for some, how could they be left?
How could a choice have been made to make it as hard as possible to put as many barriers
as possible in place between them and simply an acknowledgement, simply an opportunity
to talk to someone, to tell someone on the record, I believe I've had an injury to this
pharmaceutical product.
And then when they go through their healthcare provider, they're told it takes too long.
It costs too much money.
I can't, I've been told not to file adverse event reports.
I have a colleague who was just sanctioned for doing so.
There are no adverse events to these shots.
Pick your poison.
I don't know about you, but this is weird to me.
And I called it a smoking gun.
I suppose we'll see.
And as a summary, what this looks like to me is the government of Canada planned from
the get-go to cover their ears and go la la la la la for the entirety of the COVID-19
vaccine rollout.
And I guess now they decided that they were under too much scrutiny or something, something
has changed.
I won't even speculate as to what it could be.
I suppose something changed and now you can report again.
So I guess what I'm going to end with is all of that considered.
I'm not sure how to feel about this.
The World Health Organization downgrades COVID pandemic says it's no longer a global emergency.
I don't exactly celebrate this.
I don't feel like this is good news.
I don't think they're wrong.
I don't think COVID-19 has been a public health emergency, possibly ever.
But it certainly has not been a public health emergency since March 2020.
I'll give you two weeks.
In retrospect, I'll give you two weeks.
It was a mistake.
People, there were people who knew it would be a mistake, but most people could be excused.
Not the second time.
Not the third, fourth, fifth time.
The emergency is not over.
I think it's very clear to most people we have not ended an era of suffering directly
related to actions taken in response to the declaration of a pandemic for COVID.
I wish I could offer more in terms of celebration that the World Health Organization has given
their stamp of approval to that wrapping up.
People can travel in Canada again.
People can very shortly go to the States if they're considered an unvaccinated person.
The public health emergency and the national emergency and all that are going away.
Well, some of them are just being suspended.
I wish I felt like it was appropriate to take a victory lap, but I don't.
And I suppose I'll end it like this.
I have never seen so many people ready to listen to others.
I've never seen so many people ready to learn new things.
My partner Sam was able to tell her family that I participated in the National Citizens
Inquiry and they genuinely appeared interested.
Perhaps they always would have been, but I know I would have been too scared to tell
them six months ago.
So let me know in your life, where can we find the positivity?
Where can we find the light?
Because if this isn't over, then that means there's a lot of people who need a lot of
other people to be good and positive and simply ready to keep listening and talking.
And you guys, everybody who's been tuning in since the start of the Rounding the Earth
podcast, which is coming up on a year ago, you have helped make this place a place where
we can hear and share and talk and listen and debate and disagree.
And I've heard from people who they've noticed that and it has made an impact in at least
some people's lives.
And it couldn't happen without all of you, because otherwise it would just be me or me
and Matthew or just Matthew talking into blank internet.
So we did this together and whatever it is we do now in our lives in this particular
cause, we continue to do it together.
So thank you.
This has been an interesting one.
But thank you all for watching this episode of Rounding the Earth.
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That's one of the things I'm fighting for.
So thank you for helping fight for that with me.
I hope you all have an absolutely fantastic rest of your afternoon or evening or wherever
it is you are in the world or whatever time it is.
Just know you are never alone.