The Silence of the Pandemic Planners & Opposition Politicians
When Canada's pandemic plan got tossed out the window, why didn't its architects protest?
I’ve just discovered a fantastic article that Rita Smith, the publisher of Road Warrior News, wrote a few weeks back. It’s titled If these 10 groups had done their jobs, the Truckers’ protest would not have been necessary.
She begins by pointing out that opposition parties in our federal Parliament are funded by the taxpayer in exchange for doing a specific job. When government MPs are stampeding in one direction, it’s the job of the Loyal Opposition to represent alternative perspectives, to provide a basic sanity check.
When governments violate medical privacy, wave aside informed consent, and trample numerous other civil rights in a manner that would have been unthinkable a few short years earlier, opposition parties are supposed to ring the alarm bell. But that’s not what happened. In Rita’s words:
Where was the Official Opposition when we needed them to hold Justin Trudeau’s feet to the fire over nonsensical, unscientific COVID mandates? [New Democratic Party leader] Jagmeet Singh basically joined the Liberal Party. Erin O’Toole’s feeble, lacklustre performance was so pathetic, Conservative Party members booted him out of office.
The indisputable fact remains: had there been proper professional criticism from the highly-paid members of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in Parliament, volunteer Truckers wouldn’t have needed to provide it in the streets.
Top health bureaucrats also failed us, says Rita:
When Canada created its Pandemic Preparedness Plan after SARS, every provincial Chief Public Health Officer signed off on it. It contained no suggestion of locking down healthy people; universal masking; mandatory vaccines or vaccine passports. [bold added by me]
Where were all the Public Health officials who developed that plan? Why didn’t they protest when Canada rammed a whole new set of untried, untested coercive measure down the throats of citizens? [italics in the original]
This is critically important. Taxpayers paid for Canada’s pandemic plan to be developed. Small armies of government employees have since discussed and updated it over the years. According to The Lancet, back in 2004 the cost had already exceeded half a million dollars. Below is a quote from page 218 of the 2006 version:
Part A also explains the lack of evidence to support the use of masks to prevent transmission…in the early phase of an influenza pandemic, it may be prudent for [health care workers] to wear masks when interacting in close face-to-face contact with coughing individuals to minimize influenza transmission. This use of masks is…not practical or helpful when transmission has entered the community. [bold added]
Had these ideas prevailed when COVID came along, taxpayers might have got their money’s worth. Instead, carefully developed guidance got tossed out the window. Without explanation.
Canadian taxpayers - especially the ones who were harassed, excluded, and fined over facemasks - are owed an explanation. And a refund.
WE are only two weeks away from the third anniversary of this live special:....Feb 2021 -- "...guest host Danielle Smith interviews the former head of Alberta Emergency Management Lt. Colonel David Redmond on Alberta’s pandemic response. Redman gives a presentation on COVID-19 responses in other jurisdictions along with Alberta along with how ineffective lockdowns have been in controlling infection rates or mortality. A fantastic show debunking a number of COVID-19 myths and exposing flawed government policy in response to the pandemic. Questions from listeners are answered and a great discussion between Smith and Redmond on the pandemic rounds out the show. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY 🎁🎉🎉🎈🎁🎉🎈🎁🎉. ...and now, Premier Smith is paying Preston Manning $250k to have us listen to the same thing.
In my humble but determined opinion - I believe that not only the politicians and the health department officials owe each and everyone of us an apology and should be held accountable, but the these super powerful- All Knowing - supposedly impartial judges who towed the government’s lines without exerting any due diligence whatsoever and convicted and sentenced (still being done today) - must not only be publicly outed but and forced to apologize publicly but also penalized with a substantial pay reduction for at least a couple years! SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE IF THE PUBLIC’S FAITH IS EVER EXPECTED TO BE RESTORED IN Our POLICE, POLITICIANS, HEALTHCARE OFFICIALS AND OUR PRESENTLY (IN)JUSTICE SYSTEM!!!