Canadian Member of Parliament Dean Allison (Niagara, Ontario) launches “Allison Inquiry” for the COVID-19 vaccine-injured.

Thank you to lawyer Shawn Buckley and Teresa Buckley for their support of the COVID-19 vaccine-injured (in the video).

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0:20 responders and our frontline healthcare workers for all the work that you do every single day. But there was also Canadians who suffered serious adverse

0:29 events following vaccinations who feel their stories have not been adequately heard. Every Canadian deserves to be 

0:37 treated with dignity, respect, and compassion. When people come forward with concerns about their health, our 

0:44 first response should never be dismissal. It should be listening. The individual sharing their experiences through projects such as the Allison

0:51 Inquiry are not statistics. There are mothers, our fathers, our sons, our daughters, our friends, and our neighbors. Their experiences deserve to be documented, examined, and understood.

1:02 Good public policy depends upon public trust. Trust is strengthened when governments and institutions are willing to ask difficult questions from the 

1:09 evidence wherever it leads and acknowledge when people have been harmed. My pos my position is simple. 

1:16 compassion for those who suffered from CO 19 and compassion for those who were injured following the vaccination and a commitment to transparency, 

1:24 accountability, and giving people a chance to share their stories and to be heard. Canadians should never be afraid to tell their stories and government

1:32 should never be afraid to listen. Today, I want to highlight two reasons why these stories matter and why Canada needs a more thorough examination of his

1:40 pandemic response. First, we can’t ignore the experience of Canadians who were injured following the vaccination. 

1:46 The government recognizes this. Even the Liberals recognize this. And federal reporting through the public health has 

1:54 said that there’s been over 58,000 adverse events reported in Canada, including more than 11,000 classified as 

2:01 serious. The federal vaccine injury support program had received more than 3,500 claims. More than 3,000 of those 

2:09 claims were deemed admissible for review and so the government acknowledged that people have been injured and yet only over 250 people have been compensated. 

2:19 Those numbers alone tell the story on just how slow and unfair the process has been. Many individuals tell us they have struggled to be heard, struggled to 

2:28 navigate the system, and struggle to obtain answers. There are legitimate questions about whether the support program is delivering the assistance 

2:36 efficiently. According to the report by the Globe and Mail last year, more than 54 million was provided to Oxero, the company administering the vaccine injury 

2:44 support program with more than 36 million being spent on administration. 

2:49 That’s 2/3 uh spent on administration while only a fraction of the claims have resulted in compensation. Whether one supports or opposes government pandemic

2:58 policies, I believe Canadians agree in one principle. If people have been harmed, they deserve compensation, support, transparency, and a timely

3:06 assistance. Second, Canada’s increasingly become an outlier among de democratic nations when it comes to reviewing what happened during the

3:13 pandemic. More than 30 democratic countries have launched significant co inquiries, including public commissions, parliamentary investigations, and 

3:21 independent national reviews. These include countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Italy, France, and the United

3:28 States. Many G7 countries, and many Commonwealth countries have recognized an event of this magnitude deserves careful examination. These reviews have

3:37 looked at government decision-making, lockdowns, mandates, policies, vaccine policies, e economic impacts, public health preparedness, and civil liberties 

3:46 concerns. They have not undertaken these inquiries because they all had the answers. They undertook them because

3:52 their citizens deserve answers. Yet here in Canada, one of the most significant events in modern national history has 

4:00 never been examined through a comprehensive national public inquir with the level of transparency and independence that many Canadians believe 

4:08 is necessary. That said, we’re not proposing a national inquiry today. What we are proposing to something more 

4:14 immediate and accessible, an opportunity for Canadians to share their experiences, tell their stories, and 

4:21 ensure that their voices are heard. As I’ve traveled across the country and as my colleagues have traveled across the country, we have heard countless stories 

4:30 from Canadians. People have come to my office. People have written letters. 

4:34 they’ve sent emails. Some lost loved ones to CO 19. Some people lost businesses. Some struggle with isolation 

4:41 and mental health challenges. Others experience severe adverse reactions following the vaccination. What they all have in common is a desire to be heard. 

4:52 That is why this conversation matters. 

4:54 This is not about relegating every decision or re religating sorry every decision that was made during an unprecedented crisis. This is not about assigning blame. It’s about learning. 

5:05 it’s about listening. is about ensuring that when the next public health emergency arrives, Canada is better prepared because we had the courage to 

5:13 examine what happened honestly and openly. Canadians deserve transparency.

5:19 Canadians deserve accountability. And above all, Canadians deserve to know that their experiences matter. The 

5:26 stories that we will hear in September are reminder that behind every statistic is an actual human being. Their voices 

5:33 deserve to be heard. Many have suffered in silence and their country should be willing to listen. The my call to action 

5:41 is if you’ve been injured or someone you know has been injured, we’d love to hear your stories. I’d ask you to go to allisoninquiry.com

5:49 and fill out the forms and then we hopefully we can get a chance to hear your stories. 

6:01 My name is Sean Buckley and I’m a lawyer that is volunteering with the CO testimony association, which 

6:09 is a notfor-profit that was set up to help manage this inquiry. This inquiry is 

6:16 meant to be a nonpartisan inquiry. if it was set up by the Conservative Party or the Liberal Party or the NDP or the

6:24 block, it would be difficult for other MPs to participate. So, this is rather unique is the the co testimony 

6:32 association is citizen. It’s a volunteer organization. So I will be participating. Teresa here who will be 

6:41 speaking next are participating as volunteers to partner with MPs so that 

6:47 MPs from all stripes of all parties feel free to come and listen to Canadians because that’s all that’s happening

6:54 here. And the motivation is is quite something. I was involved in another 

7:02 citizen inquiry, the national citizens inquiry, which is in 2003, listened to 

7:10 vaccine injured persons. And I remember there was a volunteer named Christine and she was getting quite involved and I 

7:17 asked her, I said, “Christine, why are you helping? Why are you volunteering?” And her body language, she just froze. 

7:26 she got this pain looked on her face and she just froze. And I I knew that she was volunteering because somebody close 

7:33 to her had been injured by a co 19 vaccine. I was now just waiting to hear who it was. And she explained that her 

7:40 husband died after taking the shot. Her best friend died after taking the shot and a teenage son of another very good 

7:48 friend died after taking the shot. We’ve all had this type of experience. Um for 

7:55 me early on uh once we started this down this road it was in my neighborhood 

8:02 myocarditis. So that the teenager that did my yard work couldn’t do my yard work anymore because of myocarditis. Uh 

8:09 a neighbor a couple doors down in early 30s myocarditis. Another neighbor down the block um severely bedridden and sick 

8:18 for a long period of time. And now [clears throat] it just seems I’m surrounded by people that are getting cancer. In fact, one of the persons that 

8:26 I’m hoping will help in a very significant way with this inquiry, I’m hoping that we’ll be far enough down the 

8:33 cancer journey to be able to participate and everyone I speak to, we all have this experience have uh are aware of 

8:41 people and so this is something that we we need to address. Now, what’s interesting is is

8:47 [clears throat] 

8:48 even in arriving here today to do this press conference, I’ve learned that this is a topic that almost seems to be forbidden.

9:00 [clears throat] You know, if MP Dean Allison last year indicated, you know, I I’d like to actually just listen to 

9:09 Canadians sharing their stories in a more formal way. every MP is having this experience in an informal way where 

9:17 Canadians are coming to them and wanting to talk about vaccine injury. [snorts] And we spoke to several MPs and it’s interesting they’d ask questions like is 

9:26 is it okay? Am I going to get into trouble? How’s parliament going to react? How are parties going to react? 

9:32 that there seems to be a fear in actually having people come and formally share their stories before a panel of 

9:41 MPs and senators are also invited to participate. 

9:45 [clears throat] And it it’s kind of got me thinking. We had gone through this experience where decisions were made to try and get as many people vaccinated as possible. 

9:55 And this inquiry is not here to question any of that at all. But there was pressure and we experienced that pressure. But that pressure is no longer 

10:03 here. There we should be free to to speak now. And I I wonder if what’s happened is is we’d internalized that pressure that was there before. 

10:14 And now we need some something to give us permission to speak again. So it certainly I’ve learned that our

10:23 lawmakers need permission to to speak again. And I anticipate that the MPs and 

10:30 senators that participate in this inquiry, which is just to listen to ordinary Canadians sharing their 

10:39 journey, that it’s going to be something that will be freeing for all of us. Again, this is nonpartisan.

10:47 This is just to create an opportunity for Canadians to share their stories. 

10:52 The Allison Inquiry is not to make any findings. There’s we’re not it’s not here to grind an axe. It’s so that our 

11:01 elected representatives and our appointed senators have an opportunity to listen to you Canadians. 

11:08 And you know, as as MP Dean Allison spoke earlier in this press conference, I mean, there are numbers. We know that 

11:16 a lot of us have been injured by the CO 19 vaccines. And it just raises the question, can we not accept that we’re 

11:25 here today, that many of us are injured [clears throat] and we need to hear their stories and we need to privilege 

11:33 them. You know, when we were doing the National Citizens Inquiry, there were a couple of themes that came out that are troubling, but they need to be addressed 

11:40 and they need to be spoken about. And one was is people that were vaccine injured really felt like they had taken 

11:48 one for the team. And I I think we need to understand and appreciate that 

11:55 a large number of Canadians were volunteering to take the CO 19 vaccine to protect the rest of us. So they were

12:04 doing something to protect us. And now that they’re injured, we have a responsibility a to recognize that they

12:12 were injured, to listen to their stories, but we also have a tremendous responsibility to care for them. Another

12:20 thing that they shared. So you know first you know they were doing this to protect others. They they were taking

12:26 one for the team but their experience many of them their experience with the medical community was is that there was

12:33 a reluctance to accept that they were actually injured by the vaccine. Some of

12:40 them even described what what most of us would describe as gaslighting. like there’s almost this refusal in the

12:48 medical system to accept that they were vaccine injured. Now, we’re all the same. Doesn’t matter whe citizens,

12:57  whether we’re elected members of parliament, whether we’re healthcare providers, we all had this experience

13:04  where there was pressure on us not to question.

13:08 And it’s [clears throat] reasonable to assume that the medical community has also internalized that pressure because they’re there to

13:16 help us and they’re under tremendous strain. And we’re hoping that having ordinary Canadians sharing their stories

13:24 at the Allison Inquiry will also assist the medical community in giving giving them permission to speak because here’s

13:31 the ethical problem that we have. And you [clears throat] know, we basically have a commandment to love each other

13:39  like we love ourselves. And when it comes to here we are in 2026. When it comes to those of us that have been

13:45 injured by the vaccine, love includes listening to their stories, giving them a safe place for them to

13:53  understand that, you know, they they haven’t lost their mind. They’re not alone. We are going to listen to them.

14:02 But loving them also includes then those that are vaccine injured acknowledging that they’re vaccine injured so that

14:09 they can be treated properly not oh it’s something else because there are protocols there are treatments and

14:16 we do a disservice by not having this conversation by not focusing our care on those who have taken one for the team.

14:24 We do them a disservice by not having this conversation. So we view this as a real opportunity. This is

14:31 just an opportunity for Canadians to come together to share their stories in a in an open nonpartisan environment.

14:44 And so we are inviting all Canadians, we’re inviting those that are vaccine injured to apply to become witnesses. So you can go to allisoninquiry.com.

14:54 You can also go to coestimony.com. You will find us.

14:59 apply [clears throat] to be a witness. If you know somebody who’s injured, encourage them to apply to be a witness. We are calling on all

15:08 members of parliament and senators to contact Dean Allison and apply to

15:15 participate in this inquiry. It will change you. You’re already listening and thank you. You’re already listening to

15:23 the stories of Canadians who are vaccine injured. We know you’re listening. And this gives you another forum to do it in

15:31 a more formal way. We’re inviting you to join us. We’re inviting the public.

15:38 We’re inviting the public to participate in this. You know, for the vaccine injured, that want to have a voice, that

15:45 want to share their stories, that that want to be heard and acknowledged.

15:50 It’s it’s meaningful if there are people that listen. And so we’re inviting you.

15:55 The Allison inquiry is going to be heard on September 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th from a committee room on Parliament

16:03 Hill. It will be broadcast live. And we’re inviting all of Canadians to participate in what we anticipate is

16:11 going to be a healing journey for the nation and a beginning for us to be free to basically have a conversation about

16:19 something that we need to have a conversation about. Not in a judging way, but just listening to each other’s stories so that together we can decide how to best move forward.

16:36 Hello, my name is Teresa Buckley and I’m a volunteer and I just want to share with you just a little story about my daughter-in-law.

16:47 And when I spoke with her about what it was that Shawn and I were doing with MPD Dean Allison,

16:55 I told her about a yoga instructor that I had. Her name was Drew Taylor. She testified at the National Citizens

17:03 Inquiry as well. Due Taylor was a power yoga instructor. She was the strongest

17:10 woman I’d ever known. She could just she could do amazing things. She was so

17:16 strong. Mother of two, 32 years old, happily married.

17:23 She took one COVID 19 vaccine and within an hour she was in the hospital and she remained there for quite a while.

17:33 She finally started to get better and she was released and for her reasons she got a second shot.

17:46 The details behind that are her story. They’re not mine.

17:50 I’m just here to share to with you that after she got her second shot, she now needs a walker.

17:59 She has POTS and she faints about 30 times a day.

18:06 I think it’s time that Canadians listen.

18:10 I think it’s time for people like Drew Taylor have a voice and I think they need to be heard.

18:17 When I was sharing this with my daughter-in-law, I had told her about Drew’s story.

18:24 And what my daughter-in-law told me was, “I just don’t understand why no one’s talking about it.

18:34 Why is everyone quiet? Why is everyone silent?

18:46 It’s kind of hard to sit in that silence.

18:50 So today, we’re not going to do that anymore.

18:54 It’s time. Canadians are suffering from sea to sea, and it’s time to hear from them. So, I

19:02 just want to thank you. Thank you, Dean, for being courageous. And courage is infectious.

19:13 Please go to our website, allisoninincquiry.com, sign up to be a witness, and we look forward to listening to you. The time is now. Thank you.

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21:01 So if [snorts] there’s any questions, we’ll now take questions.

21:04  Sure. Good morning, Gina. You’ve been a backbencher for a little while now and 22 years.

21:09 Yes, exactly. Since the Harper years. In today’s leadership, do you have Pierre Polyv’s blessing to be doing this?

21:17 Oh, absolutely. I I I’ve talked to Pierre about this. I’ve talked to Caucus about it. You know, the amazing thing is is that every single member of

21:25 parliament, and I haven’t I have talked to some Liberals, uh has heard these same stories. So, I think if you ask Pierre, he would tell you that he’s out

21:33 and about working very hard. Uh and I know that he hears these stories all the time. So absolutely I think this is

21:41 something that at the end of the day all uh all MPs here in their offices or when they’re out and about. So absolutely.

21:48 Question for Sean. You mentioned that this inquiry and and the project that you’re hosting is going to be nonpartisan in nature. And while you may

21:56 have an argument there on the people that will be engaging you, but at the political level we’re looking for a response from Parliament Hill. Can you

22:03 imagine that there’s any opportunity to cross partisan affiliate given the fact that the conservative caucus was the only one that had uh MPs who weren’t

22:12 vaccinated in the leadup and conclusion of the 2021 election?

22:16 Well, you know, I think that um you know, there was a division before unvaccinated and unvaccinated, but I think we need to transcend that now

22:24 because the reality is is we all had actually a very similar experience. We just believe different things. And you

22:32 know I I I will be generalizing now but [clears throat] I I think we have to understand that people are people and we

22:39 act the same. And so, you know, just to very generalize, um, you know, the vaccinated

22:48 and and again, I I appreciate there’ll be different degrees, but the vaccinated, many of them honestly

22:54 believed that there was a dangerous pathogen that posed a lethal threat to them and people that they loved. But

23:03 there was a solution. There was this vaccine. If only the unvaccinated would take it.

23:10 Because there was this belief that if the unvaccinated didn’t that they they would pose a threat both to them and their family. Well, you can see how that

23:18 would create fear and then even hatred and division. Well, let’s generalize about the unvaccinated because you’ll

23:25 see that the experience is literally identical. So the unvaccinated and again I’m generalizing but many of them

23:33 honestly believed that the vaccine posed a lethal lethal threat to both them and their family. Well no problem you don’t

23:41 have to take a vaccine in in Canada if you don’t want to except that there was all this pressure which was largely backed up by the vaccinated.

23:52 And so [clears throat] you can see how it create fear and how it would create um even anger and hatred. And so we’ve

24:00 all had this experience um which was surprisingly similar, but the difference is is what we believed, what the facts were. And again, people are people. The

24:08 one thing we learned at the National Citizens Inquiry is if we listen to each other’s stories, we can come together because we’re all just trying to do

24:17 what’s best for ourselves and our families based on what we believed. And so let let’s get back now to the political question that you had. I I’m

24:25 just saying I’m hoping that we can transcend. Um it’s 2026 and we have to come together. We’ve all gone through an

24:32 experience and regardless of where we were on the narrative um it was very traumatic for most of us.

24:40 [clears throat]

24:40 I think this whole nation needs to do some healing and part of that is recognizing that many of those that took one for the team are injured and we need

24:49 to listen to them and we need to basically help them as much as possible and and the first step there is

24:56 listening. So the the co testimony association I [clears throat] for the volunteers that that we’ve already

25:05 approached I can honestly say I don’t know the ail the political affiliation of any of them I don’t belong to any

25:13 party haven’t for a long time doesn’t belong to any party hasn’t for a long time um we’re we’re basically apolitical

25:20 and we are not going to be selecting volunteers based on any political affiliation we are going to be calling on the public to help fund this. So, we

25:29 we’ll be doing public fundraising. We’re not taking any donations from any political party. So, [clears throat] and it’s going to be the CTA that’s going to

25:38 be taking applications, having volunteers vet applications. We’re seeking we’re going to be seeking volunteer doctors to kind of vet the

25:45 applicants because we’re wanting to rule out any other explanations so that those persons that we have come and testify.

25:54 um it’s you know it’s a legitimate conclusion that their injuries are caused by the vaccine. All of that will there’ll be zero regard at all to any

26:02 political party. So [clears throat] I I can appreciate that within parliament we have an adversarial government system.

26:12 It’s a system that we’ve inherited um for who who forms the government, how legislation is passed. Um but this is an

26:20 inquiry just to listen. And if you go to the website, the Allison Inquiry, and look at the terms of reference, th this inquiry is actually banned from

26:29 making any findings of fact. It’s banned from forming any conclusion. It is simply limited to listening to the

26:37 stories of seen injured Canadians. And that is something that every MP from every party is already doing. And we

26:45 truly are trying to structure this in such a way so that it’s open to everyone and it’s not political. and understand

26:52 that that privileges those Canadians that are going to be applying to testify because for them this isn’t a political

27:00 process for those Canadians that have been hurt that for those Canadians that are suffering or you know we may call

27:08 family members of people are that have you know died or are suffering for them this isn’t a political issue this is

27:15 just we’ve had this experience they’re injured they want to be listened to they want to be taken care of it’s as simple as that. So we’re we’re truly hoping

27:24 that this will be one of those issues that can transcend party politics.

27:28 You about terms of reference from whom do those terms of reference come? Where are you getting the sort of authority for this operation? So, and again, you

27:37 know, authority is a it’s an interesting word to use in the question because all that’s happening is is that, you know,

27:45 member of parliament Dean Ellison has stepped forward and said, “I’m already listening to people. Surely to goodness, it’s okay for me to listen to them in a

27:54 formal way and to invite other MPs to listen to them in a formal way.” So we basically got together and drafted terms

28:02 of reference which are available on the website [clears throat] deliberately to prohibit us, you know, or and I say yes, it’s

28:11  going to be the panel members, those MPs and senators that apply to to Dean Allison to participate in the inquiry.

28:18 They’re prohibited from drawing conclusions.

28:22 [clears throat]

28:22 They’re just there to listen to the voices of Canadians sharing their stories. And you know, when you think

28:30 about it, we’re only having witnesses for 4 days. That that’s not enough time to get evidence to draw any conclusions

28:38 in any event. We’re just viewing this as a beginning opportunity for us to start having the conversation

28:46 that we need to have. So, as far as when we’re talking about authority, there’s no authority in this inquiry. It’s just

28:53 an invitation for MPs to join Dean Allison in listening to Canadians share their stories.

29:00 Respecting what you said about not drawing conclusions. Do you expect though that the panel will have some kind of final report to share with

29:09 Canadians or is I’m just trying to understand what what we’re trying to achieve. Is it 4 days of listening and then hopefully there’s a next step or is

29:18 there a conclusion that you expect will come of it?

29:22 You know that is actually you’re asking a super important question because this is this is a beginning and so what we

29:29 put in the rules is is that and [clears throat] the terms of reference. the the panel members are

29:38 permitted, they’re not required, but they’re permitted to refer questions to Parliament. So, it may be that after this experience, those MPs that have

29:47 listened may want to ask questions of Parliament.

29:52 And we don’t know what those may be, but it could be as simple as, you know, we think that you should look into this.

29:58 This truly is just meant to be a non-threatening preliminary listening to Canadians and then we’ll see what comes

30:05 out of it. But we’re not we’re not there’s no um there’s no kind of preconceived idea of what will happen.

30:13 We just see that there’s a need to have an open dialogue. So MPs are already doing this in their offices.

30:22 But [clears throat] Canadians need to understand that that they’re being listened to cuz MPs tell

30:28 us like I mean they are all getting basically asked by Canadians to listen

30:35 to their stories. There is a need for a dialogue but that’s all this is. It’s very preliminary and it’s very

30:42 preliminary deliberately just so that we’re we’re basically giving ourselves permission to hear for the first time

30:48 where that leads. Um, we’re going to have to see.

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