Francis Christian is a surgeon from Canada, someone with a long and prominent career. Not only is he a practicing surgeon of more than 20 years, he s a prominent university professor and even co-founded the program at the University in which he teaches, the journal he teaches at, and the editor of a medical journal as well. He s just been cancelled for daring to suggest that there must be an informed consent for the rollout of the controversial COVID vaccine for children in Saskatchewan.
00:02:38.360I had founded the SQSC, which is the Surgical Quality and Safety Committee, which I co-chaired.
00:02:47.200And together with our university computer department, I developed an app.
00:02:53.960It's an app that's now available on Apple Store and on Google Play Store.
00:02:58.820It's called the M&M app or the Morbidity and Mortality app.
00:03:03.520Now, this app is, in fact, being used now across the province of Saskatchewan.
00:03:08.060I co-founded the Surgical Humanities Program and the editor of the Journal of the Surgical Humanities.
00:03:18.280The fall 2020 issue of the journal had much in it about COVID-19, about the pandemic, including my editorial.
00:03:27.520Now, on the 23rd of June, just over two weeks ago, I was called into what was termed a WebEx meeting
00:03:36.260with the dean, the chief medical officer, and the interim head of the Department of Surgery in Saskatchewan.
00:03:46.820I was stripped of my university faculty position, and I was fired from my roles as director of QI,
00:03:55.360Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, and also fired from my role as director of the Surgical Humanities Program.
00:04:02.020My offense or crime was supposedly asking for informed consent, informed consent from parents and children
00:04:14.320in the rollout of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to our children in Saskatchewan.
00:04:23.140Details of the WebEx meeting, John Henry, you can find that on the JCCF website.
00:04:31.000The JCCF is, a lot of Canadians maybe don't know about this wonderful organization.
00:04:41.260It's founded by John Carpe, and it basically defends Canadians' charter rights, fundamental rights,
00:04:54.980constitutional rights, all those things we cherish in our society.
00:04:59.040So if you go to the JCCF website, jccf.ca, you'll find my story there too.
00:05:07.100It is very, very strange, mostly because your track record is so perfect.
00:05:14.780I mean, in terms of patient care, in terms of patient concern, and in fact, this is the whole reason why you did what you did in the first place.
00:05:21.620You're not a doctor who is against vaccines.
00:05:25.720No one can call you an extremist of any kind.
00:05:28.580As you said, your magazine covered COVID, the severity of it, and so on.
00:05:35.020Your issue was with the effect on children.
00:05:38.920If you could give us a few of the points, I mean, I've read it, of course, but for our viewership,
00:05:42.700it's particularly those who like to view on video rather than read what's going on.
00:05:47.320Please explain to us in a few points, if you will, what led to this problem?
00:05:52.580What were the points you were making, particularly around vaccines for children?
00:05:57.160John Henry, you said it quite right there.
00:06:00.060I mean, I am not an anti-vaxxer or I'm not an anti-vaccine physician.
00:06:08.780In fact, I made it very clear in multiple locations and through many communications that I'm a very pro-vaccine physician.
00:06:20.000Now, on the 17th of June, I called a press conference and miraculously, the mainstream media were there.
00:06:31.580So, you know, as you know, the mainstream media, unfortunately, have been co-opted as arms of government
00:06:40.380in the kind of creeping dystopia and tyranny that is coming upon this country.
00:06:48.960But, you know, miraculously, by the grace of God, the mainstream media were actually at this press conference.
00:07:02.200CTV was there, Global News were there.
00:07:04.500I started off by saying that I do not represent the Saskatchewan Health Authority.
00:07:09.520I do not represent the University of Saskatchewan and that I was directly addressing parents and children.
00:07:19.600And I started off by saying, and I quote, I am a very pro-vaccine physician.
00:07:25.640I am only too aware of the great scourges of mankind, including smallpox, that have been eliminated or made innocuous by vaccination.
00:07:36.180I'm also pro-vaccine for my own family, including myself, end quote.
00:07:41.060Now, what I was asking for, John Henry, is essentially what is called informed consent.
00:08:03.320And very simply, what it means is that the person by whom the drug, the vaccine, the treatment, the intervention is administered must always, always make the patient fully aware, the child fully aware in this case,
00:08:20.480the parent fully aware of the risks of the medical intervention, the benefits of the intervention, and if any alternatives exist to the intervention.
00:11:49.340Another group of physicians were being censored.
00:11:52.720Censored, and those are the physicians of what we call the FLCC, the frontline COVID critical care doctors.
00:12:01.420And these were guys who were on the frontline of, and we knew about some of these guys.
00:12:07.100We knew about Pierre Corey, his point of care textbook on ultrasound is actually standard reading, even in our hospital here.
00:12:16.300And then you had a guy called Paul Maric, who was, and I think still is, the second most published ever intensive care physician in the world.
00:12:27.340And there was a guy who was originally from Italy.
00:12:30.600His name is Umberto Meduri, who was the fellow who, not invented, but he was the guy who popularized for the first time and showed that non-invasive ventilation works.
00:12:44.340So we knew some of these names already.
00:12:46.300These were massive, you know, published, and very scientifically renowned physicians, and they were being censored.
00:12:56.680And they were advocating for things like early treatment with something called ivermectin.
00:13:03.380Ivermectin is one of the safest drugs known to humankind.
00:13:07.700It is, its inventor got the Nobel Prize in medicine because of the great impact on world health.
00:13:16.680The FLCC group showed through their own experience and through getting together experience from across the world that this is an amazing drug.
00:13:42.520And that's when I started asking questions back in May.
00:13:44.780And I was trying to influence the system from within.
00:13:48.580But when our province and across Canada and, of course, in the States as well, I think that the Canada, the U.S. and Israel are the only countries giving the vaccine to children.
00:14:01.280OK, when the province started rolling out the vaccine at warp speed, literally, to our kids, that's when I said to myself, I have to go public.
00:14:15.340Otherwise, I could never live with my conscience.
00:14:18.380And that's when I gave this press conference.
00:14:27.480And I pointed out that the principle of informed consent was being consistently violated in this province for the mRNA vaccine for our kids.
00:14:38.980And I pointed out that I had not met a single child or parent who had been adequately informed and who then understand the risks of the vaccine or its benefits.
00:14:48.960And I pointed out that the vaccine was new.
00:14:52.020And by definition, it was an experimental vaccine.
00:14:57.480The phase three trials were not designed to end until 2023.
00:15:01.860It had never been used in humans before.
00:15:04.640That the mRNA vaccine has never been authorized by either Health Canada or the CDC for full and complete authorization.
00:15:16.160Health Canada has it under what is called interim authorization.
00:15:20.780In the U.S., it's under what is called emergency use authorizations.
00:16:02.180There is, therefore, a strong case for vaccinating the elderly, the vulnerable and health care workers.
00:16:09.400But COVID-19 does not pose a threat to our kids.
00:16:14.660The risk of them dying of COVID is less than 0.003%.
00:16:20.140And that is even less than the risk of them dying of the flu.
00:16:23.820And there is, therefore, no emergency in children.
00:16:26.080So this is, again, if you think about it, how many parents and kids actually know this?
00:16:33.140All they know is this fear conditioning that has been rolled out to them by mainstream media, which, as I've said, is an arm of government now.
00:16:45.060I pointed out that the studies show that children do not, do not readily transmit the COVID virus to adults.
00:16:53.360And shouldn't adults be immune or vaccinated anyway?
00:16:57.440So, and in many countries, actually, the studies show, for example, in Sweden, that teachers had significantly lower rates of COVID-19 than the general population.
00:17:07.280So there's no reason to keep our schools closed.
00:17:09.200And then, you know, the fact is that the mRNA vaccine, by that time, and, you know, unfortunately, the vaccine adverse event reporting system in the United States has recorded even more deaths associated with the vaccine.
00:17:27.680I pointed out that the VAERS, V-A-E-R-S system shows associations and not necessarily causations, but that this was a strong signal.
00:17:40.440Now, at the time I gave the press conference, John Henry, the VAERS system had recorded 5,888 deaths, and now it's more than 9,000.
00:17:49.960And, again, these are associations, and we don't know whether they're causations.
00:17:54.000Yes, yes, that's true, but in any other drug or vaccine, they would have been sufficient to stop the whole program.
00:18:02.760A pause and a regrouping and certainly a big signal not to give it to our kids.
00:18:08.920So that's another thing I pointed out at the press conference.
00:18:12.400I pointed out that the mRNA vaccine was already causing problems for kids, including a condition called myocarditis, which is actually a serious condition.
00:18:21.680There's no such thing as mild myocarditis.
00:18:39.280Many will actually become very sick from it.
00:18:41.640Some may die from it, and some may have long-term problems with it.
00:18:45.160And, in fact, as I was being fired, ironically, the CDC was meeting to consider exactly this problem of myocarditis in kids associated with the vaccine.
00:18:57.700And since that time, Health Canada and the CDC have come out with an explicit warning that should be included when this vaccine is considered.
00:19:16.180So, you know, the fact is, the German vaccine agency, the Swedish vaccine agency, the UK vaccine agency have all said this vaccine should not, need not be given to kids.
00:19:29.660In some cases, they've okayed it for very sick kids.
00:19:32.940Somebody with leukemia, vulnerable, immune system, suppressed, that sort of kid.
00:19:37.720But when so many other major vaccine agencies have said no to vaccinating kids, and when we already know that these were problems coming up, what was Health Canada doing?
00:19:54.640I pointed out that the benefit of the vaccine was marginal at best because there's something called absolute risk reduction, which is, and I won't go into the technical details of that.
00:20:05.240But the absolute risk reduction is actually quite modest and quite low, and it's less than 2%.
00:20:13.400Finally, I pointed out that the drug ivermectin is the alternative.
00:20:17.040You remember what I said about informed consent, the risks, the benefits, and if there are any alternatives.
00:20:23.280And I pointed out that, in fact, ivermectin was the alternative and that this common and cheap and very safe drug was being blocked in many Western countries.
00:20:32.520If I were to prescribe ivermectin to somebody in Saskatchewan, it's not available anywhere in Saskatchewan.
00:20:40.020So, I pointed out these things, very, very, very simple things, and I said, you know, this is what informed consent at its minimum for our children and parents should look like.
00:20:51.780I urged our vaccine authorities, our public health authorities, to call a pause in the mRNA vaccine rollout to our kids.
00:21:01.480I pointed out that informed consent was not being given to parents and children in Saskatchewan for the mRNA vaccine for our kids.
00:21:09.740And that was all that happened for which I was fired and I was stripped of my positions.
00:21:18.600One, just off the bat, did you envisage this outcome as an even remote possibility when you went forward in the first place?
00:21:29.760A remote possibility, yes, because we are living in what I think I refer to as dystopian times.
00:21:36.200I mean, unfortunately, anything other than the official narrative is not allowed, okay, is censored, is demonized too, is, you know, there's deep platforming going on, smearing going on.
00:21:52.700The mainstream media here, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix tried to do that to me too, I mean, pointing out certain things which had absolutely no bearing on what I'd said and twisting what I'd said and so on.
00:22:10.900So there is, there is a dystopian tyranny that is creeping into this country and it's affecting the mainstream media, but not just the mainstream media, it's affecting our institutions, it's affecting academia.
00:22:27.880And, you know, my firing might have been extreme, dramatic, and, you know, there's a recording of the firing, I don't know if you've listened to it.
00:22:36.660You can find it on the JCCF website, the link to it, but, and that recording has gone around the world now.
00:22:45.280But I got to tell you that I'm only one of several examples of my Canadian co-physician scientists who have been persecuted just for having an opinion other than the official narrative.
00:23:01.440And there is a, I can give you, you know, right off the bat, I can tell you that there's an emergency doctor by the name of Chris Milburn, who was fired from his, his emergency medical director, I believe, role, because again, he criticized something to do with lockdowns.
00:23:22.260There's another physician by the name of Charles Hoff, who had seen actual harm from the vaccine in his practice, and was trying to alert the authorities, as we're supposed to do, first do no harm.
00:23:35.800This is what we have learned from the beginning.
00:23:39.640This is the tradition of medicine, not just in our countries, in Western civilization, all over the world.
00:23:44.560No matter what civilization, well, no matter where you look, first do no harm is a principle.
00:23:51.700It was a principle, you know, before the time of Christ, even Hippocratic medicine talked about first do no harm.
00:23:59.760The Canadian people owe you a lot of thanks and gratitude for being willing to sacrifice yourself for the truth, for your care for Canadian children, Canadians generally.
00:24:10.780But what a horror is happening in Canada to the whole medical practice, because what this does is engender fear in physicians who, there's so many things that go on with physicians, like they consult with one another, even if it's off the mainstream opinion for now, because that mainstream opinion changes with the research that individual physicians do.
00:24:34.620We spoke last week with Dr. Zelenko, who was one of the first to treat COVID patients in upper state New York, and he developed his own treatment protocol, as you know.
00:24:44.100But this is, physicians work this way.
00:24:52.400That's why we have off-label use of medications.
00:24:55.080But this whole normal process of medicine is being completely stifled by what seems to be just a government agenda.
00:25:04.240Absolutely incredible what's happening to the threat to the lives of patients, and obviously the harm to good physicians who are actually caring about those patients.
00:25:16.860Where do you see this going in Canada?
00:25:20.020Because I know your case is being taken up by the JCCF.
00:25:33.580Because, you know, from your insider perspective with regard to physicians in Canada, and thank you for telling us who the names are and some of their backgrounds.
00:25:42.500Because it's fascinating to hear, but it's also for a lot of Canadians who are sort of, we're seeing these doctors, and we don't know exactly who they are and what they are, just to see how renowned they are, and yet being cancelled anyway.
00:25:57.200All that men and women of science hold dear is under, I would say, unprecedented and continuous assault.
00:26:05.980Unprecedented because this is on a global scale.
00:26:09.200And you and I know, and scientists and physicians know, that the scientific method, which has been responsible for so much human progress, so much of the relief of human suffering, is itself being subjected to daily abuse by totalitarian authorities.
00:26:29.560And with a compliant press, unfortunately, and major internet platforms, they're all acting as arms of government, arms of big pharma, arms of business.
00:26:42.560And, you know, this is something that I feel is a pivotal, crucial moment in our history.
00:26:51.920We physicians and scientists have always known, we continue to believe that throughout history, opposing views, vigorous debate, and openness to new ideas.
00:27:03.880These have been the bedrock of scientific progress.
00:27:08.600And, you know, any major advance in science has been arrived at by scientists, surgeons, physicians, practitioners, vigorously questioning, quote unquote, official narratives, and following a different path in the pursuit of truth.
00:27:26.020And these have been the methods of science.
00:27:57.080I mean, if you look at the press, for example, Lenin, at the Council of People's Commissars' decree on the press, November 9th of 1917, he said, publications can be proscribed temporarily or permanently only by decision of the Council of People's Commissars.
00:28:19.060So, this Council of People's Commissars in today's Canada is public health authorities, governments, and I don't care what government, you know, you call it conservative, you know, NDP, liberal, they're all in this together, I think.
00:28:37.440And then only the Council of People's Commissars, only mainstream media, only YouTube can really be the arbiters of truth.
00:28:47.740And then there's the next item on this Council of People's Commissars' decree on the press of 1917 is that the present ordinance is of a temporary nature and will be repealed by a special decree as soon as normal conditions of social life set in.
00:29:06.740Now, I've got to tell you, this is very, very, very similar to what is going on.
00:29:15.480All these emergency measures, all these emergency acts that legislatures have passed, you know, up and down the country will be temporary and it will be repealed by a special decree or whatever.
00:29:28.340We know that Soviet tyranny, Soviet communism lasted not one year or two years, but 70 years.
00:31:03.320And then the other thing that happened in the Soviet Union is children were the easiest targets for propaganda.
00:31:12.540Because, you see, all of them had to attend state-run schools and where teachers were fired, as we know, if they were found to be religious in any way.
00:31:21.200So if they were talking to kids about the Bible, the Koran, you know, Judaism, you know, they could be, you know, sent off to Siberia.
00:31:34.480You know, there's a well-known way in which kids were persecuted, and the persecution was by a well-known method of dividing society, dividing people, and in this case, dividing the schools.
00:31:52.860Children who admitted to attending church services, this is on record, they received poorer marks in school.
00:32:00.420And because of the anti-religious tone of education, you know, students frequently mocked their believing peers.
00:32:09.160Now, is that happening in the vaccine world among our kids?
00:32:31.260You have to, you know, you have to look at how, you know, the vaccine thing is dividing parents from their kids as well.
00:32:40.720In fact, one of the leading newspapers in the United States had an article that said why kids should disobey their parents and get vaccinated.
00:32:52.800This is a well-known tactic of the Soviet Union.
00:32:55.800All the children in the Soviet Union were taught to have a higher loyalty to the state than to the families, and were encouraged to denounce their parents for anti-Soviet activities like attending church.
00:33:08.080So, there is a disturbing, dystopian similarity to what is happening now, and I really do believe that Canadians must wake up to the approaching darkness.
00:33:23.460Because if you wait, it may be too late.
00:33:27.840Now, on a note, I'd like to end this segment, if I may, John Henry, on a note of hope.
00:33:52.460And even during the period of severe Soviet censorship, if you were caught with a Bible, you could be sent off to the Gulag or sent to a psychiatric hospital.
00:34:02.880Even during that time, there was what was called in Soviet times the Samizdat, which is Russian for self-published press.
00:34:14.040And there were scores of illegal books, okay, illegal to the Soviet Union, you know, verses of the Bible, books of the Bible, great works of literature.
00:34:24.960You know, people of my age have probably seen the movie Dr. Zhivago, but Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago was, this masterpiece was actually banned in the Soviet Union.
00:34:40.860So was, you know, Bulgakov, Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, or Alexander Chalvinistian.
00:34:49.820But in small basements or apartments at great peril to themselves, the Samizdat, the self-published press in typewriters, in manual typewriters, would be churning out pages of the Bible,
00:35:04.260of these great masterpieces of literature, and smuggling them into the streets of Moscow, Petersburg, all over Russia.
00:35:14.440And when the Soviet government fell, every tyranny will collapse.
00:35:19.020When the tyranny collapsed, what was left standing?
00:35:22.700The Bible, all these great works of literature, these works of literature and religious education, they were all still intact.
00:35:31.660And in 1946, the BBC, which is unfortunately now also an arm of government, but at that time, it was a very different BBC.
00:35:43.680In 1946, they started broadcasting radio services for Soviet citizens.
00:35:49.100So did Voice of America, Radio Liberty, Deutsche Welle.
00:36:09.980You're doing the work of this banned broadcasting service, broadcasting into the dark areas of our civilization, messages of freedom and liberty.
00:36:24.960And unsurprisingly, the Kremlin was not happy with Western media trying to meddle with Soviet citizens.
00:36:44.340One of the things you said was very interesting.
00:36:46.340You talked about how there is a viable treatment with ivermectin.
00:36:50.620One of the key aspects of emergency use authorization was that there can be no effective treatment.
00:37:02.160Were there one, then you could not have this bypass of the normal, careful measures taken to approve drugs.
00:37:10.920That's why we don't have an FDA approval.
00:37:13.220We have only an emergency use authorization.
00:37:17.360But in order to get there, you had to have no effective treatment.
00:37:22.780So given what's going on, given the fact that many, many doctors have used ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and associated treatments successfully all over the world,
00:37:33.700doesn't it make you wonder if there wasn't a program behind it in the first place?
00:37:38.680I know that's kind of conjecture, except all the evidence points in that direction.
00:37:43.060I'd like to hear your thoughts on that.
00:37:44.560I can only tell you, John Henry, what I see.
00:37:47.540What I see as the evidence, as a science, and as what is happening.
00:37:53.860As to why it is happening, I think your listeners, your viewers should make their own conclusions.
00:38:01.380I mean, as somebody has said, don't outsource your thinking.
00:38:53.000However, there are dozens of studies, many randomized controlled trials, which show that ivermectin is not only useful, but massively useful.
00:39:07.120It keeps people out of hospitals, as empty as the hospitals, it can end the pandemic.
00:40:49.720In Canada, you know, CTV did an attempted hit piece on me.
00:40:56.520And the Sastron Star Phoenix was very biased from the beginning.
00:41:00.920But Global News, I thought, did a very fair story on my firing in the evening news and in the thing.
00:41:10.460So here and there, media is breaking out, okay?
00:41:14.320But 99% of the time, you know, you and several voices around the country and several, you know, physicians, scientists are being censored, including those who advocate for ivermectin.
00:41:30.960Think about this, John Henry, hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved if ivermectin was allowed for use.
00:41:42.460You know, this has been done from the beginning of medicine, repurposed drugs for new users, okay?
00:41:49.920And this is one of the safest drugs ever.
00:42:10.300I would say, you know, to my physician colleagues too, I would appeal to them.
00:42:15.000If you feel that, you know, you're being censored, you cannot live with your conscience, you're violating your oath to be first thinking about your patient,
00:42:28.140not about your position or about what other people would say.
00:43:34.120The responsible parties of the governments and whatever powers that be that are restricting these working medications,
00:43:42.040at some point, this will be looked back upon and seen as an intentional type of even genocide or something that people were willing for whatever political business,
00:43:54.960pharmaceutical, whatever reason, to allow for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people intentionally when they knew better.
00:44:04.300And I've not been associating this with any particular crime against humanity, but I have to say that the censoring of a treatment that can save lives
00:44:21.320could indeed be considered a crime against humanity.
00:44:26.080If you're blocking treatment that can save lives, it could be considered a crime against humanity.
00:44:31.680Let me give you a couple of examples of very recent instances where knowledge of ivermectin and of the world-renowned physicians who are promoting it
00:44:44.980has been censored, blocked, deplatformed, and persecuted.
00:44:50.680The inventor of ivermectin, the Japanese inventor, he was given a Nobel Prize for his invention, was on YouTube.
00:44:58.460Essentially, he was explaining how the drug likely works against viruses, okay?
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