Telling the Bigwigs a thing or two
Telling the Bigwigs a thing or two
Bad things happen when good people stay silent + BC's Health Professions and Occupations Act & Canada's "Agile" Food and Drug Regulations Input
I woke up from a dream just now. There was a public event with a whole lot of spectators. Suddenly I heard the moderator say “I will now call upon Hannah to speak to us, as she has been engaged in advocacy for quite some time and I will ask her to talk to us about this work.” My dream self was stunned as I had had no warning of this invitation to come to the microphone. On the long way up to the podium, I remembered my father and how he sometimes would say in German “Da muss man den Bonzen da oben sagen was Sache ist.” (You’ve got to tell the Bigwigs at the top what the situation is really like.) This coming from a man who never got past a grade 6 education. Walking past the crowd in my dream, I strained to figure out the original words behind the saying “bad things happen when good people stay silent.”
I awoke before my dream self started speaking. But in the odd space between sleep and waking, I asked myself what I could actually have said, and how my father’s life experiences do reflect the urgency of breaking silence.
When he was in his 80s nearly a decade ago, my father started feeling so very ill that he requested a ride to the local hospital - he was usually such a strong and stoic man that this request flagged to me the very seriousness of his condition. The local hospital staff decided that he should be transported by ambulance to a larger hospital in the nearby city. I could have driven him there in 30 minutes, but the policy was such that once someone started in the ‘chain of custody’ of the hospital system, that chain should not be broken. So we waited for an ambulance to be available and then I followed it to the city hospital. There, I noted at least 5 ambulances near the door, all with their engines running in the chilly winter air to keep the meds from freezing. I met up with my father again, as the stretcher he had been put on was posititioned in the hallway behind the emergency department. My father was a very social man who could joke with the paramedics despite his discomfort. He soon found out that they could not leave this hallway, until it was his turn to be seen by the emergency department staff. So we witnessed the capture of nearly a dozen highly trained professionals due to some policy that forbade them from taking any new incoming calls for emergency services. We noted from the walkie talkie communication around us, that even paramedics from a different nearby town were being called to the city to provide services to city calls, leaving that town without coverage and keeping them captive in some other corridor of some other city hospital. Due to some policy, emanating from somewhere in the bureaucracy of the provincial health services department, more paramedics arrived and were captured in our hallway, passing the time of day huddled in tense and exasperated clumps up and down the corridor. Some of them made the rounds checking on those patients who should have been moved ahead into the emergency room and who did need closer attention, but couldn’t that have been done by a member of the hospital staff itself, freeing the paramedics to return to their stations to take new calls? My father, who HATED writing letters and had always noted that the one illness he has suffered from his entire life was WRITERS’ BLOCK stated emphatically that when he got back home he would “write those Bigwigs up at the top and tell them a thing or two.” He never did. But since then, I took to the keyboard, not letting up.
Telling the Bigwigs a thing or two in my father’s childhood was not without risk and some people paid with their lives. We here today don’t risk as much. The little village where my father was born was in the part of Germany that was later ceded to Poland after WWII. While the men were off on the Eastern Front, never to come home alive, the women and the French prisoners of war looked after the farm work. The brownshirted pro-Nazi mayor and the pro-Nazi school teacher remained behind to govern the people along with the Nazi bureaucrats who ventured into farm country from the larger cities. The higher their rank, the lighter brown the uniform, so that the most stringent of the Bigwigs would emerge from their chauffeured vehicles sporting nearly golden yellow suits - to be called “golden pheasants” (Goldfasanen) behind their backs by the whispering peasants.
One day, these golden pheasants had decided to tally up all the livestock in the area, so that they could then use the war measures act to commandeer beef, pork and poultry for the city folk. My father experienced civil resistance in action as his grandmother declared that two of the family’s pigs should be shooed into the local forest to be watched over by one of the children and miss the official pig census. This way the family would have “meat on the hoof” on their own terms.
The totalitarian bureaucrats that made up the Nazi regime also decreed that no one should try to flee from the ever advancing war front as the Soviet forces advanced pushing Hitler’s troops back closer and closer to home. Official voices threatened moms and grandmoms with the new policy that to attempt to take their children to safety would mean to permanently give up their rights and titles to their family farms. “Trust us,” they said. “Germany will never lose this war.” My father reported seeing the corpses of people hanging from trees. These were families who had tried to flee despite government orders, strung up for all to see as an example of what happens when anyone steps out of line and questions government policy.
People who have experienced totalitarian regimes have long understood the disconnect between the interests of the people and the interests of those at the top. Isis Maria Henriquez, in her family memoir Mangoes and Snowflakes, reports something similar in a completely different time and place.
And so today, how do we advocate? How do we add our voices to the din and clamour of our times? If I could actually deliver the speech I dreamed of, what would I suggest the listeners do?
Get informed. Take the time to listen to what the mainstream media tells you. But then ALSO turn to the flip side, to see what the other side has to say. THERE ALWAYS IS ANOTHER SIDE - operating on less of a budget to get heard, so more dependent on what we might put off as “sketchy” sources. Listen anyway.
Make noise. Make your voice heard. Demo-cracy — Rule by The People only works if The People speak up. Evil prevails when Good men and women stay silent. (Ahh… thanks to Duck Duck Go I found the actual quote here.) Those who remember the former leader of the Alberta Opposition New Democrats Dr. Raj Pannu (Raj Against the Machine) might have been on the grounds of the Alberta Legislature banging on pots and pans and otherwise making noise while in the early 2000s a late night health care debate was going on indoors. Dr. Pannu came out and told us that the incessant noise could be heard inside the chamber and was making a difference. Having our policy makers hear the concerns of citizens reminds them who they are actually working for.
Get involved. Ask questions. Sign up for local committees. Be the roots of the grass that grows to form the network of civil society. Do your bit. Turn the information you have gathered into action. Take risks. Support those whose risk-taking on behalf of others and of the truth has cost them their jobs. Send donations, subscribe to their substacks, contact them and ask what their needs might be.
What? you may ask. Am I exaggerating? Where in our country has advocacy led to job loss? What kind of tyranny are you hinting at that would lead to someone being fired for speaking out against injustice? This is Canada, not some totalitarian regimen. Aren’t you exaggerating for dramatic effect?
These are valid questions, coming from those who as yet, are unaware that we are dealing with two distinct completely disconnected realities. I had visited a family in communist Eastern Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. At the time, the young children had been told in no uncertain terms that the news the family listened to in secret (from receivers hidden among the rooftop shingles in order to pick up uncensored “Western” news reports) could EVER EVER be mentioned out in public. No one should EVER find out that the family was not on board with the one-sided news being disseminated via the public state-owned broadcaster, not even your best friend, and certainly not your teacher. In those days, young people who did not consent to be indoctrinated by the state (via the youth swearing-in ceremony) lost the chance to take part in post secondary education. Families who did not become Government Party Members were not included in the decade-long waiting list to become owners of an automobile and could not go shopping in the “Western” stores that were open to members only. No real coffee beans for you! Stick with ground barley-based coffee substitute instead! was the motto.
So where in Canada are people vilified, segregated, held in disrespect when they start pointing out that media outlets receiving government funding oddly now only show one side of any story? Where do people get fired for their stance on something? Where is job loss looming for anyone whose professional views are not in line with those of uninformed, unyielding bureaucrats?
Ever heard of any opposition to British Columbia’s Bill 36? If not, take two minutes to view one now deregistered British Columbia nurse making her voice heard - advocating for the many BC health care professionals whose entire careers are to be used in service of government policy dictates. In our Canada.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cbXyyW8js34c/
Here Dr. Anna Kindy from Campbell River, BC explained the ramification of governments suspending physicians for not following bureaucratic guidelines. Dr. Kindy explains that in the past, when officials made errors (related to the prescription guidelines for opiates) it was well within her purview as a physician with a background in addictions work to make her professional assessment of these matters known. Now, there is next to no leeway for physicians to use their training for the larger good and remain employed. Dr. Kindy uses the chilling example that for those in the know is not such a far-fetched potential reality. Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) came close to being listed a possible “treatment option” for adolescents with mental illnesses. Imagine if a physician had advised against this route and had been reported to the authorities for that “contrarian” view. Witnesses recently testifying to the National Citizen’s Inquiry are sharing that when they requested COVID-19 vaccine exemption letters, their physicians either told them “I can’t talk about that” or “I can’t provide that.” We have come so far as to have doctors’ offices raided by police who were directed to search a physician’s records to look for vaccine exemption letters so that they might be charged with professional misconduct and be stripped of their license to practice. In our Canada.
Dr. Kindy spoke of the petition to oppose the implementation of Bill 36 found here: https://www.cssem.org/bill36. It is an initiative of the Canadian Society for Science and Ethics in Medicine - CSSEM for short.
Since when do DOCTORS have to band together to FIGHT THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS on behalf of PATIENT CARE?
https://www.cssem.org/about-us (Scroll down to read the bios of the BC doctors involved and to find their contact email.)
Since these caring professionals shared their concerns, this bill passed and is now referred to as BC’s Health Professions and Occupations Act. It will affect 130,000 health care providers from 25 occupations, anyone from acupuncturists, chiropractors, dentists, doctors, through all specialities. It will do away with informed consent, risk stratification and a freely flowing, confidential doctor-patient relationship. Physicians will be expected to follow static guideline documents regardless of patient circumstances. It is poised to profoundly affect the lives of everyone in British Columbia, more than 1 in 10 Canadians, yet our taxpayer-funded public broadcaster remains strangely silent.
Why?
Things get even more eerie, the more you look.
There are sections in this Act that go beyond the provision of health care guidelines. Listen in as one concerned BC Citizen reads aloud this letter written by human rights lawyer Gail Davidson to BC Members of the Legislative Assembly.
“The Health Professions and Occupations Act will create instant markets for the pharmaceutical industry. It will prevent and punish individualized health care. It will extinguish protected rights including rights to informed consent to medical treatment, freedom from non-consensual scientific or medical experimentation and freedom from coercion to accept treatments not voluntarily chosen. It will enable the mandating of vaccinations, as well as enabling the imposition of severe penalties for non-compliance, for criticism, and for opposition. The Act will prevent effective oversight by the public, by health care workers, by MLAs, indeed by the courts. The Act allows BC authorities and dozens of appointees, not elected representatives but unelected appointees, to adopt, to change and to enforce laws without notice, without justification, without providing access to information, without consultation, without informed debate, without consensus, without voting by the Legislative Assembly and without meaningful access to remedies for rights violations. The Act paves the way for BC to partner with the pharmaceutical industry so that Big Pharma may proceed unhampered by the regulatory irritants and roadblocks of democracy.”
Here is the link to Gail Davidson’s letter as well as to the slide presentation that she explains in this talk given to members of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance.
Gail Davison explains how this Act, once actually implemented, would allow for the bypassing of the democratic process. Without going through the regular process of debates and revisions by elected public officials, moving forward, legislation from OTHER JURISDICTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS can literally be “cut and pasted” into BC law. Two examples come to mind. Rural residents around Thorhild Alberta are noting that “urban style” restrictions on the numbers of trees, chickens, sheds, etc. are coming down to bear on their rural farms and acreages. Why? Can municipal councillors be bypassed these days by interests that strong-arm legislation with a certain agenda that flies in the face of the interests of the local citizens…?
Likewise, it has not escaped the notice of Canadian Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis that the World Health Organization Pandemic Treaty is currently in the negotiation and drafting phase, ultimately due to be signed by May 2024. In her truncated exchange with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (linked here) we hear how Mr. Trudeau believes that “we will continue to be active participants in international fora around health while always respecting and protecting Canada’s sovereignty and choices to make the right decisions.” The Prime Minister may be unaware that provisions like those in BC’s new Health Professions and Occupations Act, if replicated across the country, would completely make a sham of Canadian sovereignty and rights to make decisions in the best interests of Canadians.
But he MUST be aware of his government’s choice to sign on to the OECD’s Agile Nation’s agreement back in December 2020, alongside of Denmark, Italy, Japan, Singapore, UAE and UK.
At the time, Jean-Yves Duclos, who was not yet named to the position of Canada’s federal minister of health, stated:
“Canada’s endorsement of the Agile Nations agreement demonstrates our commitment to creating a regulatory environment where innovation can flourish and our respective businesses can be more efficient and competitive globally,” said Jean-Yves Duclos, President of the Treasury Board of Canada. “Canada is ready to play its part in sharing ideas and best practices on agile regulation.” (Source)
The world’s largest corporate lobby organization (the World Economic Forum) wrote at the time:
The OECD launched the development of principles on effective and innovation-friendly rule-making in the Fourth Industrial Revolution for its 37 member states, to be adopted in 2021.
“Against a backdrop of a once-in-a-century global health and economic crisis, governments need to undertake a paradigm shift in their rule-making activities,” said Jeffrey Schlagenhauf, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD. “To help governments navigate the challenges and develop more agile approaches to the regulatory governance of innovation, the OECD is developing principles on effective and innovation-friendly rulemaking in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Agile Nations network is an extremely timely initiative to truly foster international regulatory cooperation for better, innovation-friendly and up-to-date regulations worldwide.”
And now, just like in British Columbia, legislation is under consideration that will involve “a paradigm shift in … rule-making activities”. “The Agile Nations will boost collaboration to remove regulatory barriers, ensuring innovators and entrepreneurs can market and scale their innovations”
Back in 2015 Health Canada’s “regulatory barriers” found here required this for example:
In other words all of the verbiage on Health Canada and provincial and territorial public health websites around “safe & effective” and “protection from infection and transmission” is now known to be clinically false and statistically unreliable. Such claims have since certainly been invalidated by the preponderance of observational evidence gathered as the vax trials went into their third phase - in which unfortunately the global population unwittingly took part. IN KEEPING WITH THIS REGULATION, all these webpages and anything promoting the use of the COVID-19 mRNA products MUST BE UPDATED.
By March 2021 requirements for periodic confirmatory testing of “a subset of products” was reduced (to allow drug manufacturers to reduce their costs). So corporate cost reduction trumped patient health…!
Likewise, former regulations also required THREE independent sets of evidence as to the safety and efficacy of certain products be submitted before a product could be licensed. Under the government’s own published statements on Trial Safety Requirements we learned that Health Canada required at least THREE randomized placebo- controlled studies, each of which involves at least 3,000 vaccinated and 3,000 control participants, which would mean a grand total of 9000 vaccinated and 9000 control trial participants per product. This is a far cry from the just over 2500 and 1100 vaccinated youngsters mentioned in the Moderna and BioNTech trials not to mention the “AGILE” plans for our future.
6 (1) Subsection C.01A.008(1) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:
C.01A.008 (1) Subject to subsection (1.1) and section C.01A.010, the Minister shall, on receipt of the information and material referred to in sections C.01A.005 to C.01A.007, issue or amend an establishment licence. (March 2021)
Here we see that licences could be issued, not with the previously required three independent sets of evidence, but rather with simply the presentation of a portion of manufacturers’ data that could lead one to believe that safety and efficacy are potential possibilities.
Alberta regulatory rights lawyer Shawn Buckley testified as much in the summer of 2022. (LINK) and now in order to be MORE AGIILE, we need to drop even more “regulatory barriers” in order to foster “innovation”? I guess this is what happens when a treasury board president becomes a federal health minister with hardly anyone in the country taking note.
It is becoming clearer by the day that countries who actually used their own sovereignty to chart their pandemic related courses ended up with different results than Canada did. It is clearer also, to those who investigate these matters, that countries whose COVID policies were (and continue to be) most supportive of WHO/CDC/FDA etc. COVID-19 vaccine products oddly also appear on the list of countries whose leaders participated in the various Young Global Leaders training programs hosted by the World Economic Forum, as explained in this recent documentary and evidenced when examining this database.
Silencing doctors is not new.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1496966/ But it can lead to resistance.
Even in Canada, we see that silencing doctors does not work for long. Canada already has far too many examples of physicians stripped of their licences for using their professional education and their clinical obligations for the public good. They are not going silently into the dark night. They are courageously getting informed, making noise and getting involved — educating and taking actions. (See the work of the Canadian Covid Care Alliance here and the Canada Health Alliance here in addition to the various provincial medical organizations coming to the fore.)
One of these, never-to-be-silenced doctors, Dr. Daniel Nagase, points out in no uncertain terms some of the harms of mRNA injections while also providing a social and legal history lesson - a much needed educational service in our time.
Here he spoke about his treatment of three COVID-19 patients in Rimbey Alberta using an antiviral treatment that was having major success in many jurisdictions world wide including densely populated parts of India.
And more recently he connects reverse transcription of DNA with the increased uptick of cancer post injection. And he ends with Human Rights Laws consistently being violated at all levels of government these days. (LINK)
What kind of bureaucrats are trying to call the shots in health care? (Ooops, that was not intended as a pun!)
Which Bigwigs in which uniform, are trying to implement UNIFORMITY in the medical system? What is the origin of the movement that is undermining diversity of care, special needs of the individual, and the sanctity of the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm?”
What is going on in Our Canada?
When do we all start to
inform ourselves
make noise
and get involved?
Talking to a Bigwig these days is much easier than it was in the 1940s or even in the early 2000s for that matter. One way to start:
Spread the word that the government of Canada is asking for citizen feedback on its plans for the “Agile” regulatory amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations and Medical Devices Regulations. Let’s get back to the three independent data sets on every new injectable, or other pharma project. Let’s get AWAY from allowing manufacturers to submit cherry picked data from those that stand to profit from the lack of balance. See https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/programs/consultation-proposed-agile-regulations-guidance-licensing-drugs-medical-devices.html to provide your thoughts on the matter.
Send emails, tweets, posts and all other manner of messaging to your provincial and federal representatives — ask them if moving forward, they would wish to become totally irrelevant, replaced not by AI but by BigCorp appointees.
A sample letter can be found here:
And finally, look up your local decision makers - in government (municipal, provincial, territorial) but also heads of unions, of agencies, of crown corporations, of media, etc. and invite them to listen in to the next days of expert testimonies coming up and being broadcast across the country.
Feel free to use this message:
Don’t miss out! The National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI) is a citizen-led and citizen-funded initiative that is completely independent from government. Hear from Canadians and experts and investigate governments’ COVID-19 policies and get the latest developments in the evolving science around COVID-19 policies including masking, social distancing, lockdowns and vaccination. See: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/nci-live/.
