Juno News - UCP members want COVID vaxx policies to change

00:00:00.840 Rachel Emanuel brings the news each day. On Alberta Roundup, she has her say.

00:00:11.200 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Alberta Roundup. I'm your host, Rachel Emanuel.

00:00:15.320 Today, I am joined by Daryl Comick. Comick is the president of the Constituency Association

00:00:20.620 for Calgary Law Heed. You guys are going to be able to hear him today, but due to some

00:00:24.920 connectivity issues that we're having, classic Alberta, we're just going to put a photo of

00:00:29.620 him up today. And him and I are going to be taking a look at the Injection of Truth town

00:00:34.340 hall that his CA hosted in Calgary Law Heed last week. Daryl, thanks so much for being

00:00:38.980 here today and sorry for the connectivity issues that we've been having this morning.

00:00:42.800 Well, we just roll with the punches. That seems to be the way we have to handle things these

00:00:47.100 days, Rachel. Absolutely. I couldn't have said it better myself. So let's start by taking

00:00:53.260 a look at this town hall, which took a look at COVID-19 vaccine data. Took a very critical

00:00:58.980 look. You guys had a lot of renowned experts come and give their two cents saying that they

00:01:03.900 believe the COVID-19 vaccine to be quite dangerous and recommended people against taking it. In

00:01:08.640 some cases, went to far as to suggest that those who had taken it should begin taking a

00:01:12.820 look at detoxing their body. This event was considered very controversial. I know that you

00:01:16.800 guys had it de-platform Femme Eventbrite and ended up having to sell the tickets through

00:01:21.160 another means. Were you surprised at how controversial this event was seen as?

00:01:26.220 Certainly, I was very surprised to see how controversial it was. I mean, we started this

00:01:31.960 by asking a simple question. We wanted to know if someone could explain to us why the

00:01:36.680 number of unexplained deaths in children in Alberta had increased by 350%. We hadn't even

00:01:41.900 asked the question about COVID jabs. It was simply this question based on AHS data. Ironically,

00:01:48.440 when we went through the data the 15th or 30th time, I'm not exactly sure, we found out that

00:01:54.000 we actually made a mistake and that it wasn't 350%. It was 3,328% increase in unexplained deaths.

00:02:02.500 Now, to most people, you'd think that's a big number. And to organizations that basically live

00:02:08.300 on polling data, you would have thought that someone at the government or at the AHS health

00:02:14.140 agencies would have said, there's something seriously wrong here. We should investigate.

00:02:18.580 It had a quick blip in the media, but then nothing happened. And so this whole idea of an injection

00:02:25.060 of truth was simply to try to find some real scientific data to explain that one question.

00:02:31.120 So when we take a look at the event itself, I know that the MLA for the region, Eric Bouchard,

00:02:39.200 he was in attendance as well as some other MLAs like Shane Getzen. Because of how controversial

00:02:44.240 this event was considered, were MLAs wary of attending? Was it difficult to actually get them

00:02:48.720 to commit to coming out? Well, certainly Eric had a strong support from his caucus friends to attend the

00:02:56.300 event. I mean, this question we have isn't just a question from Calgary Lockheed and one little

00:03:01.140 section of Calgary. This is a question for Canadians. I mean, at the end of the day, we had 18,000 people

00:03:07.360 in six countries streaming the event just to find some scientific data or potential answers to the

00:03:15.360 question. So I'm pretty sure that the amount of support that we got from caucus was because their

00:03:21.400 own constituents are saying, hey, will someone please answer this question?

00:03:25.420 There was some speculation at the time that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office wasn't pleased that

00:03:30.440 the event was going ahead. Did you ever hear anything from her or her office directly? Did they ask you to

00:03:36.120 cancel the event? Did they give it a green light? Anything from them at all on this event that took a

00:03:41.840 look at the COVID-19 vaccines? Certainly no. The Premier's office did not. She did not. I think there was a

00:03:49.860 sort of complicit consent. She did say on her radio show that she wanted to hear dissenting views or

00:03:55.840 contrary views. So she wasn't opposed to actually having it talked about. To me, from past history,

00:04:04.300 from other premiers and other presidents of UCP, our current group was very, very encouraging about

00:04:11.420 pursuing the answer. Because this is a member-driven question. This wasn't something that came from the

00:04:17.920 government. This came from the grassroots. We talked to the provincial party about it. They were 100% on

00:04:24.980 side with what we were doing and asking the question. Because we have a party policy about bodily autonomy.

00:04:29.940 So when you get into these issues of supporting conservative policy in Alberta, it's important

00:04:36.300 that the members show the policies that are top of mind to them and also to put as much education

00:04:42.980 and information forward for the government to make the right decision. Currently, Alberta Health

00:04:48.380 Services is still recommending the COVID-19 vaccine. It's on the vaccine schedule for babies as young as

00:04:54.640 six months. Recently, I had UCP Board President Rob Smith on the show. We talked about that. He said the

00:05:01.420 party really wants to see that policy change so that when doctors are speaking about the COVID-19 vaccine

00:05:07.600 to patients, they also have to tell them about some of the risks involved. What are your thoughts on this?

00:05:12.480 Would you like to see that date of six months being moved back so that, you know, babies are not being given 0.99

00:05:18.080 the COVID-19 vaccine? How do you think Alberta Health Services policy on COVID-19 vaccines should be changed?

00:05:23.880 Well, certainly when I listened to the science and the doctors that were presenting the information,

00:05:28.500 Eric Payne was very clear that said that kids don't need the COVID shot. He said that out loud.

00:05:35.420 Dr. Bridle said that the COVID shot was more damaging to people than the flu. So I think when you get into

00:05:42.160 the science, you see that it's not a necessary thing to have. Now, we live in a society of choice, and I'm sure

00:05:48.600 that the Alberta government is going to maintain the option of people being able to choose.

00:05:53.880 We would like to see, and we did provide scientific research, scientific data, the scientific paper

00:05:59.400 with recommendations based on the most current data that suggested that there should be much more

00:06:06.320 emphasis on the informed consent paper that people have to sign in order to take a COVID shot. And it

00:06:14.240 should be clear the dangers that people have. It's scientific fact. This isn't speculation. This

00:06:19.540 isn't misinformation. This is actual facts. And so the government should get on side with that. I

00:06:24.980 believe that they should put the word optional next to the COVID vaccines on the chart. Everyone says

00:06:31.560 that it's the parents' choice to inoculate or not inoculate their children. But by having it on the

00:06:37.620 site and on the list without any sort of notation, I think it basically says to parents that the

00:06:43.760 government endorses this particular process. And it doesn't really say parents and moms, dads have

00:06:50.060 the option of taking the shot with their kids or not.

00:06:54.340 As I mentioned, Rob Smith, you know, he's been saying that the party wants Alberta Premier Daniel

00:07:00.920 Smith and AHS to change the COVID-19 vaccine policy. He, of course, supported this town hall

00:07:05.720 in Calgary-Lougheed. He also said there might be more such events. To your knowledge, are there going

00:07:10.600 to be more CAs hosting events talking about and discussing the impacts of the COVID-19 vaccine?

00:07:15.780 There was two follow-up events. One happened in Red Deer and one happened in Mournville right after

00:07:20.640 the injection of truth. We certainly are looking at a second event that will focus on a very similar

00:07:27.680 topic just to, again, provide the science the opportunity to be vocal and not silence. I encourage

00:07:35.600 other CAs to have events like this. The town halls are very effective because people get to get other

00:07:43.600 information that they wouldn't get from mainstream media or legacy media or even the internet based on

00:07:49.200 some of the things that happened with censorship there. Another issue that came up was one of

00:07:54.140 compensation. So currently, if someone feels that they have been vaccine injured by the COVID-19

00:07:59.140 vaccine, the federal government has a program you can essentially apply for compensation and arguing

00:08:03.920 that you've been vaccine injured. Those requests are largely being denied. Almost anyone is, almost

00:08:09.540 everyone is being denied those requests for compensation. One of the doctors at the town hall said that

00:08:14.900 government should be responsible for compensating people who have been injured by the COVID-19

00:08:19.180 vaccines because governments, both federally and provincially, and in some cases even locally,

00:08:23.340 were responsible for pushing the vaccines, mandating them, and coercing people into being

00:08:28.260 vaccinated against COVID-19 vaccine. Is this a policy that you agree with? Is this something that you

00:08:33.020 would like to see here in Alberta where the government is actually taking a look at compensating people

00:08:36.960 who were harmed by the vaccine? Well, certainly, I think people who are harmed by this injection,

00:08:43.280 I mean, it's proven now to be a genetic modified therapy. It's not technically a vaccine by definition.

00:08:50.660 A vaccine is one shot and you protect yourself and the others around you. So clearly by Canada's own 0.87

00:08:56.520 definition, this has never been, it's not a vaccine. We have laws in Canada that protect Canadians

00:09:03.760 from taking any genetically modified shots. It's a federal government statute. So I think that the harms that

00:09:11.620 were caused by, you know, I saw a reference that says that no one was forced to take the jab.

00:09:19.160 Well, you know, there's a lot of moms and dads who would say, no, that's not true. If I didn't take it,

00:09:24.500 I wouldn't have had a job. I couldn't have paid my mortgage. I couldn't have fed my family. So

00:09:28.920 this kind of coercion, which again is in the, it's against the law in Canada to have coercion.

00:09:35.420 It's in the criminal code of Canada. So there, there needs to be a reckoning. And I think that

00:09:41.420 reckoning should come and it might mean compensation for people and it might mean admission of fault.

00:09:48.020 Right. So you just mentioned the policy for bodily autonomy. That was a United Conservative

00:09:54.720 Party resolution that was passed at the annual general meeting. The next annual general meeting

00:09:59.120 is going to be in November in Red Deer. Do you suspect that there's going to be more resolutions

00:10:03.720 put forward to make changes around the COVID-19 vaccine? Or do you think that the membership

00:10:09.960 largely feels this issue has been dealt with? Well, I think we can see from the response to

00:10:15.840 an injection of Truth Town Hall, both those people who attended, participated, and those people who

00:10:20.560 were so vocal against it. I mean, I got so much hate mail. It was, it was absolutely embarrassing to

00:10:28.120 think the Canadians would write emails like this. I do think that there is a strong grassroots movement

00:10:34.400 to say what, what happened here? What are these injections about? Why did you force us to take

00:10:41.680 them? What was the, what was the reasoning for it? And what was the science that was used to justify

00:10:46.660 such a widespread forced capture of people in Canada? So I see it likely that the process with the

00:10:55.380 policies, it goes through very rigorous process, screening, voting, and then ultimately it'll come

00:11:00.040 down to the top 30. I think one will appear on the floor of the convention. I don't think there's

00:11:05.860 any way to avoid it because this is what the members, I mean, there's 88,000 members and they're

00:11:11.300 saying, Hey, you know, if you look at the last AGM, the number of strong principled conservative

00:11:18.160 values and policies that were voted on, it was very clear that our membership understands the value of

00:11:25.760 family, freedom, and all these things that go with being conservative and we want it to be that way. So

00:11:32.720 I would suggest that yes, there will be at least one policy to be voted on, on some form of mandates.

00:11:41.360 Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with you. When Rob Smith was on the show, he said,

00:11:44.640 there's some people in the party who don't want to talk about COVID anymore. They say that's, you know,

00:11:49.360 in the past and should be left in the past. And I think there's a big argument to be made and that

00:11:53.200 a lot of the members are still very upset and would like to see more outcomes, more results,

00:11:59.040 because so many of the people who implemented these policies are still, of course, in positions of power

00:12:03.840 in the province, you know, whether that's elected officials or just government officials. So I think

00:12:08.560 there's still a lot of people who would like to see changes. I know there's a lot of people who are

00:12:11.680 really upset that the COVID-19 vaccine is still on the vaccine schedule, which sort of brings me to

00:12:17.920 my last question for you here is at this AGM, there will be a vote on whether to review Alberta Premier

00:12:24.960 Danielle Smith's premiership, essentially her leadership of the party, as happens after there

00:12:29.920 is a general election. Do you think that she's going to, you know, pass this with overwhelming

00:12:34.560 support? Or do you think there might be some issues for her among the UCP base?

00:12:38.400 I think that the members should overwhelmingly support her. I understand. I, for one, am someone

00:12:47.440 who wants things to move much quicker than they are. I want to see more movement on conservative values.

00:12:54.720 I also believe that, you know, we're in some difficult times in Alberta with such socialism being

00:13:00.640 supported by the federal government. I mean, Premier Smith is doing an incredible amount of work.

00:13:06.880 I'm sure there's a lot of foundational principles that are happening behind the scenes. So while I

00:13:12.880 disagree often, she allows me to disagree, which I thoroughly appreciate. She's respectful in our

00:13:20.400 conversation about issues and with other people. And I think, you know, it's a very complicated job,

00:13:26.880 trying to manage a province that, you know, basically has been off the rails for so many years.

00:13:32.800 And there's a lot of things to correct. So I think people should support her. I think people should

00:13:37.680 understand the complexity of the job. And I think that, you know, as conservatives, we need to keep

00:13:43.120 rowing in the same direction. We're very independently minded, and we think we know best.

00:13:48.560 But at some point in time, we have to realize that the opposition is incredibly well organized.

00:13:53.760 They often are told what to do. So they don't have the same luxury of choice. But as conservatives,

00:14:00.400 we should choose to support Daniel Smith going forward at the AGM.

00:14:04.960 Daryl, thank you so much.

00:14:05.920 Thank you, Rachel. And it would have been nice to be seen. I'll send you a picture.

00:14:11.520 I appreciate that. All right, guys, that's everything for today. I have sort of a bittersweet

00:14:18.080 announcement for all of you. Today was actually my last midweek episode of the Alberta Roundup. So Daryl's

00:14:23.440 probably my last interview for a little while. If you guys really enjoyed the interview episodes,

00:14:27.360 please let me know and I'll do my best to fit in, to still fit them in here and there.

00:14:31.600 Now, I'm not entirely canceling my Wednesday appearances. We are actually replacing it with

00:14:36.320 something else. But you're going to have to tune in to the Alberta Roundup on Saturday to find the

00:14:41.120 exciting announcement about what's coming next for True North and Rachel Emanuel. That'll be on

00:14:46.000 Saturday's episode. So thank you so much for tuning in. I will be back on Saturday. You guys will not

00:14:50.480 want to miss that announcement. Thanks so much. Have a great week.

00:14:53.440 Bye.

00:14:54.440 Bye.

Juno News - June 26, 2024

UCP members want COVID vaxx policies to change

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