Juno News - ＂We hear you＂ - Conservative MP launches Vaccine Injury Inquiry

00:00:00.000 surprisingly we have some positive news coming out of parliament conservative mp dean allison

00:00:13.040 has announced today that he will be chairing an inquiry into covid vaccine injuries it's the kind

00:00:19.200 of thing you thought you would never hear from a parliamentarian just a few years ago but now there

00:00:24.480 will be a forum for those that were injured and silenced through the vaccine to speak out and have

00:00:30.480 their stories heard the covet vaccine rollout was one of the worst public policy failures i have ever

00:00:38.160 seen from the canadian government and provincial governments it upended lives it ripped families

00:00:44.800 apart it divided the nation and to go with it there have been tens of thousands of adverse

00:00:51.680 reactions logged by health canada to the vaccine so on this episode of ratio we will be speaking

00:00:58.320 with the conservative mp who is championing and leading this important inquiry the canadian

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00:01:51.680 juno news youtube channel and the common question for the episode is this do you know of someone

00:01:58.960 who was injured from the vaccine let me know in the comments below and let's get into it joining

00:02:04.720 me now is dean allison the conservative mp for niagara west dean thank you so much for joining

00:02:10.320 me and i also want to say thank you for launching this much needed inquiry it's

00:02:15.520 really important and i'm glad to see someone is taking it on well thank you very much thanks for

00:02:20.560 having me on to discuss it a bit more i couldn't agree with you more uh you know lots of people

00:02:26.400 have been suffering in silence for too long they haven't had a chance or an outlet and you know

00:02:31.280 know we've we've sort of said hey you know we expected you to get vaccinated and sorry you're

00:02:36.720 injured but uh you know what we don't want to talk about it anymore so it makes it tough for people

00:02:40.820 who feel like they did something wrong they did what they were asked of at the time with what the

00:02:46.680 information they knew and uh so now that they're injured it's like i feel like no one cares we're

00:02:52.560 no one's paying attention no one wants to listen and it's a tough conversation i think we should

00:02:56.940 be allowed to have these conversations. So that's what my goal is really to force the issue to allow

00:03:02.740 people to be able to talk about difficult things. Talk to us a little bit about the numbers that

00:03:08.400 we're dealing with here. From the early reporting on this, we've seen that there were tens of

00:03:13.640 thousands of reported adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine. Can you explain a little bit more

00:03:20.240 about what kind of numbers we're dealing with here? Sure. So, you know, what Health Canada

00:03:25.920 recognizes is around 60 000 adverse reactions 11 000 of them of seriously but you know i i sort of

00:03:33.840 put vaccine injuries into a couple categories there's ones that are signed off by a doctor

00:03:38.960 there's ones that a doctor refused to sign off on because of their concern and the pressure around

00:03:44.560 medical associations around the country and then there's a third group of people that think they

00:03:49.040 could be injured may not be aware they're injured because of whatever they have and have happened

00:03:53.520 in their life so the reality is what we want to do is we want to talk to people that a doctor has

00:03:59.200 said you know what this is uh highly likely that it's been you've been injured as a result of it

00:04:03.920 so i think there's a lot more i think the reality is we have a sixty thousand dollar number of

00:04:08.480 people that have reported but you're probably well aware we don't do a great job of reporting

00:04:13.280 in this country uh and that's a problem and then you know when it comes to stats you know it's very

00:04:18.800 hard to know if you're not keeping track uh what those are as i said there's a there's many

00:04:23.600 categories right of where people stand so i think that number could be much higher but let's go with

00:04:28.160 the numbers that public health in canada recognize and that summer around 60 000 people that uh have

00:04:35.520 suggested that one so seeing as how you've put your name to this you are leading it i presume

00:04:41.040 you've had these conversations with constituents and people who have been impacted could you

00:04:46.000 preview a little bit for us what are the kind of stories that we are going to hear from this inquiry

00:04:52.080 what kind of injuries are we looking at here well i mean i think there's a variety and you know it

00:04:57.840 is interesting because it uh everyone's maybe affected differently right uh you know you can

00:05:03.440 sit around the table with a group of friends and have a casual conversation about what happened to

00:05:08.320 them you know once they took the first dose and second dose and each one of them may have a

00:05:13.120 different response you know some may say hey listen i had no reaction at all and that's good

00:05:16.960 to hear we're really happy to hear that but there may be someone says you know what i i got i i was

00:05:21.840 so i i was like flat out on my back for for two days right and then the the list is varied i mean

00:05:28.640 there's a i don't have a list in front of me but there is certainly a long list i mean we've seen

00:05:33.040 some of the more uh ones you know like myocarditis and and you know and a bunch of a bunch of other

00:05:39.360 things i i think this is why it's important to talk to people because everyone's experience

00:05:43.920 was so unique right at the end of the day uh what may have happened to uh your neighbor and your

00:05:49.120 friend would be uh not you know may not have happened at all in the same way across the

00:05:53.840 country so you know my thought process was i i was hearing these stories from across the country

00:05:58.880 uh people were reaching out to me uh certainly hearing these stories in my in my constituency

00:06:03.920 where people would call me uh and you know with their concerns and where they're at

00:06:08.480 and then you know it's the liberal government that admits that this is this has happened so once again

00:06:13.440 this is not a it's not a partisan issue this is a this is a non-partisan issue because this affects

00:06:18.880 people from coast to coast regardless of how they vote or or what they think or even if they do vote

00:06:24.240 and so i think that you know when you start hearing some of these stories and you don't

00:06:28.800 get a chance to talk about them then what happens is people think they're alone right and that's

00:06:33.360 what we're trying to tell people the message we want to send them is you're not alone there's

00:06:37.520 other people may be experiencing something similar so we give you an opportunity to come

00:06:42.080 and have that conversation and then people listen we're not going to fix anything but we need to

00:06:48.640 acknowledge that people were injured as i said the liberal government has already done that through

00:06:53.600 one the first vaccine injury program that they had that was spent you know two-thirds uh i know

00:06:59.600 you guys reported on that two-thirds of the money went to administration and only one-third to to

00:07:04.800 actual uh people that were that were impacted so i think there's a lot of things that we could do

00:07:10.400 better and at the end of the day if we could uh hear those stories and hear how people are are

00:07:15.760 making progress on being able to apply for some of these programs i think that uh maybe that shared

00:07:22.000 information will help others i think one of the main issues that a lot of people are still

00:07:29.040 really upset about and perhaps it's people who are personally who have personally been injured

00:07:34.660 by vaccines or it's people who know people that have been the issue is that those that have speak

00:07:40.440 spoken out have been labeled as conspiracy theorists people even even politicians that

00:07:46.660 use their platform to talk about this i'm sure you are prepared to face those allegations

00:07:50.900 have been labeled as a conspiracy theorist and it works to silence people who have genuine

00:07:57.080 concerns and genuine issues i guess the question is what what is your response to the inevitable

00:08:04.200 attack from maybe it'll be from the legacy medium it might be from the government benches to this

00:08:10.680 inquiry that you will be that you are platforming conspiracies yeah i think that's a great question

00:08:16.760 you know and i think the conversation we're having now is a lot different than it was a couple years

00:08:21.400 ago right we now have time people have said you know what something's not right and i'm not really

00:08:27.400 sure but their own government acknowledged i mean there's a reason there's a vaccine injury problem

00:08:33.640 uh sorry program it's because they recognize that people got injured so to all the people that would

00:08:39.720 call anyone that would suggest otherwise conspiracy theories it's like it's the government themselves

00:08:45.240 and the liberal government that suggests that they understand that people were injured that's

00:08:49.160 why there's a program and yet in typical program form uh most of the money goes towards administration

00:08:57.400 and very few dollars go to individuals so they're working on a new program i haven't

00:09:01.880 got any details of what that may look like i know that our health committee was doing great work

00:09:06.760 guys like dan maser has been a champion and the whole health committee and for pushing for those

00:09:12.920 details but we still don't know what that looks like so imagine that they you're in a program

00:09:17.880 and you're looking for government support right that's what we do and all day long we talk to

00:09:23.000 people you know as a member of parliament people come in to me and share their problems all the

00:09:26.840 time so imagine that i am not allowed to talk about certain topics right and i think that's

00:09:32.520 the challenge you know this government continues to push issues around censorship and around you

00:09:37.400 know what we say what we can't say and i think it's pretty chilling when the government decides

00:09:42.440 what you can and can't talk about it i'm just grateful that the government acknowledged that

00:09:46.680 they actually were the cause of some of these vaccine injuries through the program and they've

00:09:51.160 issued a program to make that happen so it'd be a little bit rich for them to say that uh

00:09:55.400 this doesn't exist when they indeed themselves have admitted this it will be rich indeed but i'm

00:10:01.400 pretty sure that the attacks will still come regardless fair enough fair enough you you know

00:10:07.000 another another issue that a lot of people have been dealing with is this sense that there hasn't

00:10:12.200 being any genuine accountability from people who are in charge who made serious mistakes

00:10:18.840 at a government level. And there was a lot of information that was gained from the National

00:10:23.940 Citizens Inquiry and other inquiries. And I'm sure this Allison inquiry on COVID vaccine injuries

00:10:31.860 will result in the same thing. So I know that the mandate is to listen to stories, listen to

00:10:38.140 concerns and amplify those concerns, but is there any look into the future as a potential way to

00:10:45.600 hold people to account if this inquiry uncovers some serious wrongdoing? Yeah, that's a great

00:10:53.720 question. I think, you know, we look around the G20. I mean, there's some 30 countries that are

00:10:59.580 doing some form of inquiry, either through committee or through a national inquiry,

00:11:05.340 government inquirer uk's done a lot of these things i mean uk the home of uh censorship in

00:11:11.340 large is actually doing more more on this issue than in canada you know i think it starts this

00:11:17.900 is a starting point of trying to get people to acknowledge that people are injured and they need

00:11:22.780 to be able to talk about it uh you know you've got to be in government you got to be in control

00:11:27.340 of government to be able to uh mandate any type of inquiry that would have some fact-finding powers

00:11:33.340 and you know some judicial powers where they could go any further that's why we're going to

00:11:37.500 keep it to what we do you know as i say all every single mp from every single party hears these

00:11:43.820 stories in private so why can't we talk about them in public right so i think at the end of the day

00:11:49.660 that's what we're trying to do is give people an opportunity to talk about it and discuss it make

00:11:55.100 people aware and then you know try and help them access the programs that they're actually entitled

00:12:00.220 to. As far as inquiries down the road, who knows? I mean, at the end of the day, it would be nice to

00:12:05.380 see more happen, but that is not my mandate for this time around. But I think that I am grateful

00:12:12.660 that we can get this out and we can hear people and their stories, and hopefully we can help

00:12:19.400 them get some of the programs that have been promised by the government.

00:12:23.600 it feels as though we are still in this country just as divided and uh and and opposed to one

00:12:34.560 another as we were at the height of covid where everything was extremely divisive and and government

00:12:40.020 policies wedged canadians against each other and families against each other what do you think it

00:12:47.000 will require or what do you think needs to be done to reunite this country around you know

00:12:54.020 besides politics which seems to push push us apart do you think getting to the bottom of this

00:12:59.760 covid chapter closing the book on it and you know answering some of these questions is is going to

00:13:07.720 help us get there and also do you feel like we're still in this moment of divisiveness well i

00:13:15.440 definitely think we're still in a moment of divisiveness. I don't think it needs to be that

00:13:19.380 way. I think at the end of the day, we as parliamentarians should be allowed to have

00:13:23.660 hard conversations about every topic. And I think that, you know, you see a chill in the air with

00:13:29.780 this liberal government around censorship, around, you know, sharing the news on platforms like

00:13:35.780 Facebook, around algorithms, you know, when it comes to podcasts and stuff like that. So C-22

00:13:41.640 is just another example so you know quite clearly this government has chosen a road

00:13:47.080 to emulate themselves after the uk and some of their censorship you know i i wonder when

00:13:52.880 people are going to start going to jail for mean memes i i i joke i don't want to joke about that

00:13:58.760 but the reality is we've seen things like that happen in the uk i think the way you reunite

00:14:03.980 people is that you have conversations and you have conversations whether they're easy or whether

00:14:09.220 they're difficult this is a difficult conversation and no one's had it it's time we have these

00:14:14.900 difficult conversations and you can insert whatever topic you want into that as canadians

00:14:21.380 as parliamentarians we should be allowed to have a difference of opinion we should be allowed to

00:14:27.060 disagree we should be able to respectfully disagree but we should have a forum and parliament is

00:14:32.420 supposed to be that forum where you could talk to one another and you could disagree but that

00:14:37.860 doesn't mean that you're my enemy and so i think that what i hope to see is by having these

00:14:43.060 conversations that it'll be a way of you know healing some of the wounds uh that have started

00:14:49.220 and that have happened with a number of these individuals that quite frankly feel like they've

00:14:52.900 been abandoned by their government well that's that's the question that i want to leave the

00:14:57.940 audience with and i want to hear your answer to it which is what message do you have for

00:15:03.300 canadians who feel like they've been abandoned who feel like they've been harmed and ignored

00:15:07.540 and labeled as a conspiracy theorist have gone through some seriously tough times,

00:15:13.140 especially since the pandemic. What is your message to them today as you launch this inquiry?

00:15:17.940 Yeah, I just want them to say we hear you. We hear you. We know that you did what you

00:15:23.220 believed was right, what you were told you needed to do and what you were in some cases forced to

00:15:29.780 do in order to go to school or get on a plane or go to work. And it's not through any fault

00:15:36.340 of yours like you're not to be held responsible but i i just want people to know that we hear you

00:15:41.940 we hear that you're hurting we hear that you are in pain and we we want to make sure we hear those

00:15:47.620 stories because there is absolutely no way that people can start to heal if they can't share their

00:15:53.620 stories and can't begin to talk about what they've been you know suffering in silence for so many

00:15:59.460 years mpd nelson we'll leave it there and we're watching the inquiry closely thank you for joining

00:16:04.980 me thanks for having me on i wish you a great day sir a reminder that if you want early access to

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00:16:24.100 common question of the episode do you know someone who was injured by the covid vaccine

00:16:29.860 All right, we'll leave it there for this week. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratioed.

Juno News - June 07, 2026

＂We hear you＂ - Conservative MP launches Vaccine Injury Inquiry

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