Last Updated on September 7, 2021 by Hamad Subani

Previously, we featured a member of a Canadian Legislature warning about internment camps popping up across the country. Now, we feature a Canadian Member of Parliament, who managed to get away with hosting a Press Conference on Parliament Hill itself on 17th June 2021. This 39 minute long video will best be remembered for the explosive testimony of Canadian Vaccinologist Dr. Byram Bridle. In another video, Dr. Peter McCullough hinted that Dr. Bridle may have been silenced. But what he said in this Press Conference will linger for a long time to come.

Dr. Bridle also authored a comprehensive guide for parents who are being pressured to vaccinate their kids, which has gained significant readership worldwide. He is a member of the Canadian COVID Care Alliance.

Some additional context about this Press Conference can be found here. Like Randy Hillier whom we previously covered, Sloan is also an independent. He was kicked out of the so-called Conservative Party of Canada for opposing the lock-downs. The fake Conservative Party of Canada is better known as the corollary to the fake Republican Party of USA. They subscribe to the same level of warmongering abroad while dividing people on superficial issues like gay marriage. While Conservatives are currently not running the country, the current Premier of the industrialized province of Ontario, Doug Ford, is from a Conservative faction. Doug Ford has gained worldwide notoriety for using the lockdowns to aggressively de-industrialize the region. Like a little Trump parody, he and his family were prepped for this role years ago.

The only press reporter who showed up for questions was Rachel Emanuel of iPolitics. In other words, all major Canadian newspapers, TV News channels, and talk show hosts did not deem the serious risk of vaccines to Canadians worthy of coverage. But they still continue to cover far more trivial and distracting stuff. Like good doggies, they don’t bark to the master’s voice. Even when there is an imminent danger to public well-being. Which is why no information emanating from them can be trusted.

The Video

The Full Transcript

The transcript was generated by the incredible AI at Rev.com. But with AI being AI, it required proofreading. And links, quotes and annotations were inserted for additional context.

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Derek Sloan: Greetings everybody. My name is Derek Sloan and I am the Member of Parliament for Hastings Lennox. and Addington, I am very honoured to be joined today by Dr. Byram Bridle from the University of Guelph, Dr. Patrick Phillips from Engelhart Hospital and Dr. Donald Welsh from the University of Western Ontario. These esteemed individuals will share their stories with you shortly. And I hope you have many questions to ask them, but first I wish to make a brief statement. As many of you will already know. I have been among the most outspoken of all Canadian politicians with my concerns towards the way the federal government, in addition to our provinces and territories have responded to the Pandemic, whether it was never-ending lockdowns, the curtailing of constitutionally protected rights, the extreme measures taken against Canadian small businesses or basic concerns about informed consent in vaccination, mental health and deferred medical procedures that have caused a cascading effect on our health system.

I’ve consistently stood up for Canadians when no other Federal Party would. Those of you watching this today may not be aware that several weeks ago, I issued a call for whistle-blowers to our medical and scientific communities across this country. Doctors, nurses, medical scientists, and other experts have indeed reached out to me through various channels to tell me their stories. At times, the information they’ve provided has been shocking. However, the single uniting factor was that none of their stories were being told either here in Parliament or International Media. In fact, these individuals are being blocked at many levels from telling their stories. And since Parliament is about speaking the truth and the needs of the people, what more fitting location and fitting time than here on Parliament Hill to do this today.

One of the first whistle-blowers to reach out to me was a concerned nurse who has spent over 20 years working in a hospital in my riding of Hastings Lennox and Addington. For her own protection, I will not name her today. When she reached out to my office, it was to inform me that the local hospital she worked in was experiencing very low numbers of COVID patients. That is until they took in many patients from Toronto hotspots, which artificially raised the number of COVID patients in our community in a way that was not accurately reflected in the local media reports to the public. It made it look like locally, we had a lot more, uh, active cases than we truly had. This type of fear-mongering in media reports has been a major issue of concern throughout this pandemic.

This nurse informed me that many of the sick patients had in fact already been vaccinated.

Derek Sloan on Canada’s Parliament Hill, 17th June 2021.

Even worse. This nurse informed me that many of the sick patients had in fact already been vaccinated. This was not something we were hearing from our local health officials in local media reports. Even worse, this honest and diligent nurse was afraid to say anything publicly because the College of Nurses of Ontario was threatening nurses who spoke out with what they were personally witnessing in their hospitals. Anecdotal stories, such as this came in with several frontline medical professionals reaching out to me with each passing day. It gets worse. Whistle-blowers filing things drastically changed on April 30th, 2021. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario known as CPSO issued a dire statement, threatening any doctor who spoke out about what they were witnessing on the front lines of our hospitals in their own clinics and in our communities. The purpose of governing bodies like the CPSO  is to protect the public, not to stifle legitimate scientific inquiry or dissent by doctors.

But this attempt to intimidate doctors into silence had the opposite effect. My office was inundated with calls of concern. At the time we began working very closely with multiple groups of doctors and other concerned medical professionals. These honest and hardworking doctors are fully galvanized against the regressive authoritarian overreach of the CPSO and other similar governing bodies. I’m going to share a couple of stories that have been shared with me from Medical Professionals and ordinary Canadians. And then the doctors here today will share their perspectives as well. The first note concerns vaccination from an individual who can’t share her name due to potential job repercussions. And her words to me are:

Derek, I am a 30 year old female citizen of Winnipeg who was recently pressured by healthcare workers in the media to take the COVID vaccine. I was told that the benefits outweigh the risks, but I now realize that I was never informed of any of the potential risks. Four days after my first and only Pfizer dose. I was diagnosed with heart inflammation and fluid buildup around my heart. I’m now on antiinflammatories for three months that have the potential of injuring, my only kidney.

A Winnipeg citizen writes to MP Derek Sloan.

And she adds, I was born with only one kidney. The media keeps saying that these cases are rare and that they typically happen in young men. But so far she says, “I know three other Winnipeg women who have also developed heart issues, post shot,” and she notes that we are all young under 35 years old. Well, this is all concerning. She goes on to say the most concerning part is that we are still being advised by our doctors to get a second dose. At this point, it feels like they are purposefully trying to harm us.

The media keeps saying that these cases are rare and that they typically happen in young men. But so far she says, “I know three other Winnipeg women who have also developed heart issues, post shot,” and she notes that we are all young under 35 years old. Well, this is all concerning. She goes on to say the most concerning part is that we are still being advised by our doctors to get a second dose. At this point, it feels like they are purposefully trying to harm us.

A Winnipeg citizen writes to Derek Sloan

The second note I received comes from one of our honorable members of the Canadian forces. And again, I received so many notes. I couldn’t go over them all, but I picked a few to share today. I want to thank our members of our Canadian forces for courageously, uh, doing their job and for this particular member for sharing this note with me. “Good morning, Mr. Sloan,” he says,

I am a CAF member who fundamentally believes that Canadians are being misled and taken advantage of by our government institutions. I feel it is my obligation to contribute to the betterment of our country and the safety of our citizens. As of Friday, my COC is boasting a 90% vaccination rate within the CAF. This was achieved by the following requirements. Number one, CAF members are required to complete the DLN course before having a vaccination appointment scheduled on their behalf at a mass vaccination clinic on base with staff, other CAF members and, uh, PHAC Public Health Agency of Canada officials. Number two, all members are to attend the clinic regardless of their personal wishes to receive the vaccine or not. Upon arrival members are seated and given a two page briefing document, which summarizes the information in the online course. Members are then ushered one by one into cubicles and asked if they wish to receive the vaccine. A PHAC nurse is onsite to answer any questions. The member is free to leave after a 15 minute period of time observation and my experience, he goes on to say, I felt that both times I went to the clinic that I was being pressured and encouraged to blindly accept the process. On my second visit, which was much more aggressive, I was directed to speak with the public health nurse who advised me that I was not authorized to obtain the vaccine from civilian sources and that the vaccine was in short supply. And that it was just like a flu shot, which would have many followup booster shots. I asked the nurse when the vaccine would be licensed in Canada, out of interim use authorization and was stunned when she knew nothing of the actual process. I am concerned for my fellow members. I’ve witnessed my coworkers suffer vaccine injury in the past. And I’m sure that the military will cover up the true devastation caused as it has done before with suicides. There is talk that the vaccine will be mandatory for all CAF members in November. My solemn plead to you is that this is somehow prevented. We are currently being told to be leaders and take the vaccine. And if this happens, it won’t be long before all Canadians will be subject to mandatory vaccines. Thank you for your time. A scared CAF member.

A Canadian Armed Forces member writes to MP Derek Sloan.

So I’ve shared a couple of private notes with you, to me, from Canadians involving their interactions or interactions with health professionals and institutions. As you can see, we should be asking questions about this process, but whenever someone does, so they are intimidated or censored by whomever, it is that they, their, their, uh, reporting to with that in mind, it became clear that I had to convene a summit today to tell you personally and directly about the censorship. Several, uh, uh, doctors are facing here in the country. And these doctors that are with me today are indicative of many, many more doctors. And I’ve spoken with dozens and dozens of them personally. And I’m certain, there are hundreds of doctors and scientists across this country who are facing extreme pressure and censorship for asking legitimate scientific questions. Many people at high levels across the federal and provincial governments are misleading the public and the media must now hold these officials accountable for their lack of transparency and honesty on these matters. In these troubling times I thank you for being here today. And all I can say is God bless Canada. Thank you so much for being here with me today. Uh, Dr. Bridle, would you, uh, tell us your story here at the front. Thank you.

Dr. Byram Bridle: First of all, I’d like to thank MP Derek Sloan for giving me this opportunity to speak here today. Um, being able to speak openly about, uh, my ideas and my experiences is unfortunately, an unusual experience. I’d also really like to thank, um, Dr. Don Welch and Dr. Patrick Phillips who are standing shoulder to shoulder with me today. I really appreciate that. And, uh, indeed I know that, uh, each of us is representing a huge number of people that are backing us. I’d also like to thank the Canadian public. Um, I’m undergoing a very public smear campaign right now. And, uh, and it’s very difficult, uh, but I am receiving hundreds of emails every day from, uh, people from all across Canada, uh, and also other parts of the world as well, which are very supportive. So I would say for every vicious attack I receive, I’m probably getting about 50 notes of support and, and encouragement.

And that’s why I’m here today. So my name is Byram and I am an associate professor of Viral Immunology at the University of Guelph. And since the Pandemic was declared, I have been trying to serve as a voice of objective scientific opinion so that the public can make the most informed decisions for themselves possible when it comes to issues related to COVID-19. So I, I didn’t have a problem with this. I I’m, uh, I’m uh, publicly, uh, I don’t, I don’t like being, uh, in front of people all that much. I tend to be more of an introverted individual. However, I am a publicly funded servant. So I’m public servant. You pay for me Canadians, from your tax dollars. I work at an academic institution, which is publicly funded, and therefore I see it as my responsibility to Canadians that when they have questions that they can come to me and ask the questions, and if they are pertinent to my areas of expertise, then I feel it’s my responsibility to give the most informed answer that I can so that they can help make informed decisions.

Two weeks ago, I gave an interview. It was a five minute radio interview. The company that runs the radio show did nothing wrong. The host asked me one question and she did absolutely nothing wrong. She was doing her  job. The question she asked me was if I knew whether or not there could be a possible link between COVID-19 vaccines and cases of heart inflammation that have been reported around the world and young males. In this case, it was 12 young males in Israel. And I’ve been delving into the literature, uh, very deeply because I’m a vaccinologist. My entire research program is based on the development of novel vaccines. My publication record is based on publishing information about vaccines. So I have a lot of expertise in this area, and indeed I have worked along with a large number of collaborators, both within Canada and internationally. I have developed some serious concerns about the current COVID-19 vaccines.

And so I felt that I could express concern and that there might be a possible link between this heart inflammation that’s occurring, and these COVID-19 vaccines. After I did this interview, five minutes, again, trying to present to a lay audience. It was like a nuclear bomb went off in my world, and my life was thrown upside down. And I am sure my life will never be the same again. So within 24 hours, there was a libelous website that was put up using my domain name, a fake Twitter account was developed to slander me. And I’ve been undergoing daily attacks either through email people attempting to call me, uh, and, and definitely in the social media. And I never had a presence within the social media until recently when I knew how they fake a social media presence. This has been very hard on me and my family for the first, uh, I should also mention I’m experiencing harassment, lots of harassment in the workplace.

After I did this interview, five minutes, again, trying to present to a lay audience. It was like a nuclear bomb went off in my world, and my life was thrown upside down.

Dr. Byram Bridle after talking to a Mainstream Radio Host on 27th May 2021.

Now with that said, I want to point out I’m from the University of Guelph. Well, the administration of my institution has made it very clear that they are very supportive of me. They, uh, honor, and respect the basic tenant of academic freedom and freedom of speech. So for my institution, I really appreciate that. But there’s colleagues of mine who have been harassing me both in the social media and in the workplace, uh, it’s even gone so far as to have one of the, uh, members of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Committee. Uh, they were actually the first ones to post the link to this slanderous website. They have fanned the flames of this smear campaign quite strongly. Since then they even went so far as to release confidential medical information about my parents. This is an egregious act. This is a practising physician. A practising physician should know that they should not be releasing confidential information about people, medical information in the social realm.

So these are the types of things that I’ve been experiencing over the past couple of weeks. After three days, there I was like a walking zombie. I got up at one and a half hours of sleep the first several nights. Then I got it together because of my support network. I’ve got a couple of colleagues locally at my institution who have stood shoulder to shoulder with me. I’m part of the Canadian COVID Care Alliance. This is a group of individuals. In fact, the reason that we exist is sad we exist, because we’re, like-minded in the sense that we all want to be able to speak openly and freely about the science and medicine underpinning COVID-19. And we don’t feel safe to do it anywhere else, other than within our own private group where we feel safe myself. So one of the other members of that group…… our group has grown into 100 members and is still rapidly growing. We’re quite new. And only two of us are willing to talk to the media about this group. The others are too afraid for their jobs. They’re afraid, they’re physicians that are afraid they’re gonna lose their license to practice and there are academics and other professionals who are afraid that they are going to lose their jobs.

So what I’m going to talk about right now is exactly why I’ve been harassed. Okay? And so this science that I’m going to talk about very briefly, I don’t have much time, so I’m just gonna be very brief. Uh, but if you want more information about this, I’ve written a comprehensive guide for parents so that they can make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines, when it comes to vaccinating their children, this guide, you can find at the website for the Canadian COVID Care Alliance. So that is the Canadian COVID Care Alliance dot Org. And what happened in this interview? When I was asked if I’m concerned, or if I still saw a potential for a link between heart inflammation and the COVID-19 vaccines. I said, I did, and this is why. What we have learnt, and, and we’ve learned from a large body of scientific literature. We’ve also learned this from reports that were submitted by Pfizer themselves to regulatory agencies, one in particular to a regulatory agency in Japan.

And what we have learned is….. I’m very familiar with vaccines and traditional vaccine technology would tell us that when you put it vaccine into the shoulder, and that’s where we get vaccinated with the COVID 19 vaccines, traditional vaccine technology tells us the vaccine would stay on the shoulder. And then what happened is cells from the immune system would come and pick up the spike protein, all these vaccines, get our bodies to manufacture the spike protein, right? So cells of the immune system pick up that spike protein, take it to the local draining lymph node and activate the immune system. That’s why often when we get sick or we’ve been vaccinated, sometimes their lymph nodes swell because that’s where immune response is happening. And our B and T cells go throughout the body to look for them, the virus. Okay. So this is, was an assumption and I accepted that at the early on in the Pandemic.

And when we were first rolling out these vaccines, we’ve had to largely work based on assumptions, but you know what? The scientific literature has exploded over the last 16 months. And we understand so, so much more. Okay. And so now we’re looking at vaccinating children and it’s no longer okay to proceed based on assumptions. And so what we have found is that this assumption about the vaccine remaining in the shoulder does not apply……this novel vaccine technology has never been in people before. These messenger RNA vaccines get distributed throughout the whole body. What we have found in fact is that as little as 25% of the dose remains in the shoulder and it traffics all over the body, also many of you might’ve heard of polyethylene glycol because that is one of the components of the vaccine that sometimes people develop anaphylaxis shock to.

………..we have found is that this assumption about the vaccine remaining in the shoulder does not apply………..these messenger RNA vaccines get distributed throughout the whole body. What we have found in fact is that as little as 25% of the dose remains in the shoulder and it traffics all over the body,

Dr. Byram Bridle’s Initial Puzzlement with MRNA based vaccines

Okay. The polyethylene glycol was put in this formulation. You don’t realize these lipid nanoparticles, these little bubbles of fat that carry this little blueprint that helps  ourselves make the spike protein. Those lipid nanoparticles are actually originally designed to disperse throughout the body. They were designed to be gene therapy vectors, and also carry drug cargo, especially into the brain where it could be used to treat things like Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease and brain cancers. That polyethylene glycol, just so that you know, is designed to help facilitate that spread throughout the body. You get about five fold, greater spread throughout the body with polyethylene glycol there. Do you know why? Because when the polyethylene glycol is there, it actually helps the lipid nanoparticles bypass the very cells of our immune system that are supposed to pick up the antigen and take it to our lymph nodes.

You get about five fold, greater spread throughout the body with polyethylene glycol there. Do you know why? Because when the polyethylene glycol is there, it actually helps the lipid nanoparticles bypass the very cells of our immune system that are supposed to pick up the antigen and take it to our lymph nodes. So arguably by having that polyethylene glycol there, not only are we promoting spread throughout the body, but we may actually we’d be dampening the very functionality of the vaccine that we want.

Dr. Byram Bridle’s Realization

So arguably by having that polyethylene glycol there, not only are we promoting spread throughout the body, but we may actually we’d be dampening the very functionality of the vaccine that we want. Okay. Now, a lot of this is speculation, of course. Um, but what we do know for sure, what is not speculations is that vaccines spread throughout the body. What we also know is that proper studies have not been conducted. Remarkably, this is based on a rat study, a study done in rats, and that’s appropriate as a starting point. That should not be the end point. This should have been done at least two animal models and remarkably it hasn’t been done in people. And it, it has not been done at all with the actual vaccine formula that we are administering to our children. The actual vaccine formulation has not even been evaluated.

What’s been evaluated is the Lipid Nanoparticle Technology, but not the vaccine itself. Even when it comes to reproductive studies, when the reproductive studies were done, only female mice were, or female rodents were vaccinated. The males were not. And also what people don’t realize…..and there was no evidence of any issues with, uh, with fertility, when people don’t realize is these rodents are completely inappropriate model for COVID-19. They don’t express the receptor like we do. So of course, you’re going to see safety in a model like that. It’s an inappropriate animal model. So what I’m trying to get out to you here is …..they’re having…….there are studies……….we were told that there would be no shortcuts. There have been shortcuts. Okay. Now I can understand when in a panic and we were trying to deal with something that we felt was extremely dangerous.

……….we were told that there would be no shortcuts. There have been shortcuts.

Dr. Byram Bridle on the limited use of animal models for developing MRNA based vaccines.

You know, I can understand, again, moving based on assumptions. Well, what……… but what I’m focusing on here are children and vaccinating, healthy children………. mass vaccination of millions, of healthy Canadian children, demands that the level of safety associated with this, the assess safety profile has to be exceptionally high, right? We’ve had 13 Canadians under the age of 20 die in 16 months with, well over two and a half thousand dying from other causes. Okay. So this is just to put it into perspective. So we really need to focus on the safety here. And then what I just want to point out is this science is backed up by many scientists and many physicians, including one of the inventors of messenger-RNA vaccine technology, Dr. Robert Malone. Okay. So this is a genuine concern for children and where this leads me to is by expressing  this I, my….my career may very well have been destroyed, and I don’t understand that I…..I it’s incomprehensible to me that this has happened. Okay. But as Canadians, we have to ask ourselves, do you want your physicians and scientists, their voices suppressed? We’re polarized right now. We’re polarized in Canada. We have people on both sides. We have to understand. We’re just as passionate. We feel that we are trying to look after the best interests we’re doing our cost benefit analysis, for example, in my case with children. And I honestly feel that by proceeding with vaccination right now, without conducting the proper safety tests, we may do more harm than good. I’m passionate about that, but I’m respectful of those who hold the opposite opinion. I would ask for the same for myself and my colleagues. We can’t suppress open discussion of science and medicine in Canada. It’s, it’s the hallmark of a democratic society. Okay. And one of the other things I want to point out is I’m here representing, uh, physicians, scientists, um, members of the media who feel suppressed.

And I honestly feel that by proceeding with vaccination right now, without conducting the proper safety tests, we may do more harm than good.

Dr. Byram Bridle on the use of MRNA based vaccines

And I’ve also been asked to represent some politicians who, uh, approached me privately, who feel that their jobs are at risk and MP Derek Sloan can certainly attest to what happens if you speak up too much, uh…….about, you know, trying to have open discussions. Okay. So I want to end here, but I wanna point out that, uh, Dr. Patrick Phillips is going to be speaking in a few minutes, and I want you to know that he’s one physician, but he represents hundreds. All right. I have been contacted by hundreds of physicians who, uh, support his viewpoint and he is going to present with you some things that will allow us to, uh, safely pause these vaccines because somebody like Patrick Phillips and Phillips, and his colleagues have effective strategies for preventing and treating COVID-19, that would allow us to take a pause on these vaccines. Okay. So right now I don’t recognize the country that I was born into. And I would simply ask all Canadians………..please, right. I simply want us to learn to respect one another again, thank you very much.

So right now I don’t recognize the country that I was born into.

Dr. Byram Bridle on 17th June 2021

Dr. Patrick Phillips: Thank you very much Byron and thank you very much, Derek, for, for organizing this and having us here, uh, I’ve been told we’re we’re pressed for time, so, uh, I will be brief. Um, but I want to, I want to bring up my main point, um, that, uh, I’m a family, I’m a family physician. I, I practised medicine in the town of Englehart Ontario, primarily in the Emergency Department of Blanche River Health. And, uh, I first got into speaking out, uh, seeing the massive harms from these lockdowns on my patients. I’ve never seen so many suicidal children. I’ve never seen so many cases of people coming into the Emergency Department for the first time with metastatic cancer. And seeing those harms, I made a decision to myself that I knew that I couldn’t live with myself if I did not speak out. And the reason I was afraid to speak out was because there were rumors in the medical community, uh, that the College was coming after people who chose to do that.

I’ve never seen so many suicidal children. I’ve never seen so many cases of people coming into the Emergency Department for the first time with metastatic cancer.

Dr. Patrick Phillips, on the situation in his emergency room, in a town in Ontario

And, uh, I’ve, I’ve had many brave predecessors before me, like Dr. Kulvinder Gill, uh, who bravely spoke out anyways. Um, but, uh, what happened, uh, this spring on April 30th, uh, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario came out with a very chilling statement, uh, basically saying that it’s the professional responsibility of all physicians not to communicate anti-vaccine, anti masking, anti-distancing and anti-lockdown statements and, or promoting an unsupported unproven treatments for COVID-19. They, uh, were very explicit and threatened investigation and discipline for any physicians who, uh, express any of the negative aspects of any of these interventions. Uh, no matter what the evidence, uh, what the evidence says. And I have to say over this last year, I’ve done a lot of research of looking into the, looking into the evidence around, uh, lockdowns, but especially around treatments. And I want to, I want to especially make a point around a few treatments.

One of them, for example, is vitamin D, which, which, uh, our Health Minister has as, uh, um, has named fake news. But, uh, I want to emphasize that there’s over 85 studies and 27 treatment trials. Many of these are peer reviewed scientific literature that have shown a 56% reduction in mortality in patients who take vitamin D compared to those who don’t for COVID-19, but even more so, because that was very early on. What we’ve learned in these last few months is about Ivermectin. Uh, we have on our hands, a very safe treatment, that’s won a Nobel prize. Billions of doses have been administered throughout the world because it’s a commonly used antiparasitic that’s over the counter in many, many countries around the world and world leading scientific and physician researchers, uh, um, Dr. Paul Marik and Dr. Pierre Kory have been shouting from the rooftops around this medication, because at this point we have 97 studies and over 30 randomized control trials that have shown a huge benefit to this medication in reducing the risk of death and hospitalization in patients who have COVID.

And not only does [Ivermectin] treat patients with COVID, especially when you give it early, but [……..] there’s 14 randomized control trials for prophylaxis, meaning taking this medication for high risk patients early, it can reduce chance of catching COVID in the first place, which is especially relevant for long-term care homes and for healthcare workers…. in hospitals.

Dr. Patrick Philips on a drug which is almost banned in Canada.

And not only does this treat patients with COVID, especially when you give it early, but there is also, uh, a role and there’s 14 randomized control trials for prophylaxis, meaning taking this medication for high risk patients early, it can reduce chance of catching COVID in the first place, which is especially relevant for long-term care homes and for healthcare workers, uh, in hospitals. And at this point, um, the, the College of Physicians, uh, has launched investigations against many of my colleagues, including myself, threatening to take our licenses away for promoting what they call unproven treatments. But what, uh, but what, uh, the scientific peer reviewed literature shows is very well supported, uh, in the science, uh, around these treatments. And so I’ve made a decision to myself. Likewise like, like when I decided to speak out about, uh, lockdowns, that I could not live with myself.

If I have a patient sitting in front of me, who has COVID-19, and they can’t breathe, or they’re at high risk of being hospitalized or dying, I can’t just stand in front of them. Knowing what I know is 75% reduction in mortality and not give this to my patients, but more so, uh, seeing what’s what’s happening with the Ontario Science Table, not recommending this medication, even recommending against vitamin D, which I think is unthinkable. Cause the harm is none. This is a natural substance, and they’re telling us not to give this to these patients, despite mortality benefit. I know there’s something wrong, going wrong. And I knew I needed to speak out no matter what the College does to my license, because at this point there’s, there’s bigger things going on in my career. And I thank Byron for, for, uh, for bringing that up, but there’s, there’s something bigger than my medical career at this point, because lives are being lost and, uh, and, uh, we need to speak out. And so thank you Derek for, for, uh, for having me here to get this message out. And, uh, uh, I think we’re moving on to doctor Dr. Welsh.

Derek Sloan: You’re on mute Dr. Welsh. Dr. Welsh. You’re on mute. If you could please unmute yourself.

Dr. Donald Welsh: Hello?

Derek Sloan: We can hear you.

Dr. Donald Welsh: Okay. Okay. Sorry. Um, thank you. Uh, my name’s, uh, Dr. Donald Welsh, I’m a Professor of Physiology at the university of Western Ontario and like Dr. Patrick Phillips. I’m a public servant. And I have the privilege of speaking out and publicly addressing, I think, uh, some concerns I thought I’d start today by just considering some of the words of Richard Feynman who was a physicist and Nobel Laureate. When he stated the following about science:

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t correct those mistakes, you’re doing it really wrong. And if you can’t except you’re mistaken then you’re not doing it at all.

Physicist Richard Feynman.

This Axiom finally frames where we sit today. 15 months into a respiratory viral response, we have been told by the Public Health Community to follow the science, but that science has been incorrect. And as a society, we are uncomfortable confronting this fact. Instead we plow forward and we are subjected to obfuscation and misdirection. No one or no institution can ever proclaim to be an Oracle in science.

We uncover the truth from debate that is boisterous and sometimes unpleasant. But when reasoning is combined with transparency, science moves society forward in a productive manner. I want to be clear. Science has not been functioning properly for the last 15 months as we address COVID-19. Our Public Health Community has proclaimed to know science and to provide on unassailable solutions. Those solutions in the forms of NPIs, lockdowns, masks, track and trace, and social distancing, perhaps well-intentioned, have largely failed. And they have created a remarkable list of hardships for Canadians that will take this country many years to recover from. The reason I and Dr. Bridal and Phillips are here today is because we want to reclaim what we love about science. In particular, particular…. I’m here to support Dr. Phillips and Bridal who have worked hard to, to reveal what they see as the truth. Their thoughts on patient treatment and vaccination are well considered, backed with published data and informed by government databases.

For this. They have been publicly attacked, openly ridiculed. Their academic and personal livelihoods have been threatened. This behaviour is unacceptable in Canada and ……and is antithetical to an open and enlightened society. It is time for all in Canada to engage in critical thinking, to question all aspects of Public Health Response to COVID 19. We need deep engagement. We need thoughtful debate, to turn this Public Health Response around.  This Public Health Response hasn’t kept up with the facts on the ground. It’s time for Canada to right our ship and move forward productively together. This includes, I believe in the end of full and robust Royal Commission to publicly address the many flaws that appear to underlie this Public Response. Uh, thank you.

Derek Sloan: Thank you so much. What moving presentations, I am just stunned. Uh, thank you so much for, for telling your stories and we all. And I personally, I recommit to standing for what is true in this country, whatever the cost. Thank you so much for that. It was so moving. Um, thank you all for listening to this today. And I hope that this has spread far and wide until we see some sanity in this country, once again,

Unknown host: And we’re ready for questions. Quick reminders, reporters. One question, one follow up question per reporter… [French] Operator do we have a first question?

Operator: ………C please press star one at this time, if you have a question [French], there’ll be a brief pause while the participant registered for question [French] thank you for your patience. [French]. The first question is from Rachel Emanuel of iPolitics. Please proceed. Your line is open.

Rachel Emanuel: Good afternoon. Thank you for taking our questions. Um, my first question is for Dr. Bridal and Dr. Phillips, whichever one of you cares to answer, maybe both of you. You’ve both spoken a lot today about the risks of speaking out against the dominating views on COVID-19 in Canada, but I’m wondering is if you’ve ever experienced or witnessed the type of type of muzzling before for dissenting views on medical treatment in Canada,

Dr. Patrick Phillips: I have to say I’ve never, I’ve never seen this level of, of censorship, uh, before, uh, in, in Canada, uh, uh, at, at this point we have a, what’s basically a completely new technology with these vaccines that are being, uh, put out. We have completely new, uh, interventions, such as lockdowns, which had never been used before in public health. Um, and the fact that, uh, in these new treatments, uh, in my experience, physicians are often skeptical of new treatments. I was taught that to be that way in medical school because many products have been pulled off the market, uh, after they were even actually fully approved, which these vaccines are not fully approved. Um, and so, uh, I’ve always been taught, uh, in, in my medical training to be a little bit skeptical, to look at, look at the evidence, look, who’s funding the evidence and, uh, and to look to, to make sure that we’re not jumping the gun on some of these treatments because often recommendations, uh, uh, reversed themselves such as on aspirin or, or, or other interventions. So this level of censorship, uh, in, uh, forbidding physicians to be able to speak about the harms of these interventions, uh, this mixing of politics and medicine is unprecedented. And I frankly think it’s very dangerous. I haven’t seen it before.

I have to say I’ve never, I’ve never seen this level of, of censorship……before……in Canada,

Dr. Patrick Phillips

Dr. Byram Bridle: As an academic scientist. I like to echo those thoughts. So… Can I continue? [Response:Yeah]. So I’d like to echo those thoughts as an academic scientist, uh, the underpinning of science is to have open debate. That’s an, that’s a critical quality control mechanism that we have within the scientific field globally. I mean, if, if you can’t have open scientific debate, it’s, it’s one of these classical examples, right. Of, of, uh, iron sharpens iron, and it’s okay to have different opinions. And when things are new and the literature is emerging, right? I mean, by definition, you’re going to have one study that emerges, right? And then you have to look at that with a bit of a grain of salt, right? Because it’s just one study. And then if you have a second study and it’s an opposing opinion, right, then we have to get more weight. But what we do as scientists, therefore, is debate is not wrong.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with being holding different opinions. But what we do have to be obligated to do is follow the weight of the science, just like Dr. Phillips mentioned when it comes to Ivermectin, right. I actually was quite a skeptic about Ivermectin. I’ll be totally honest. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was a complete skeptic because I developed vaccines. And I knew that something like the vaccines could not be used in Canada under an emergency use authorization, if there were good accepted and safe treatments available. So I was actually okay with the initial couple of papers that got published, which weren’t, these are trials that weren’t run properly. They, the control group was…… these were run in countries where the control group was taking an unknown amount of Ivermectin. So essentially we were studying an Ivermectin treated group to a group that was treated to an unknown degree with Ivermectin, but I was okay with it because I knew vaccines. And I’m a, vaccinologist, wouldn’t be acceptable. But as Dr. Phillips has mentioned, because I’m developing the vaccines, I’ve kept a close eye on these therapies. And, and what I saw was over time, an avalanche of data in favor of these, and I’m a scientist and I have to follow the science. Okay. So that’s what I, where I ended up with that conclusion. All right. Is that…., and so yes, this kind of suppression is unprecedented. I’ve never seen it ever before.

[…….] I knew that something like the vaccines could not be used in Canada under an emergency use authorization, if there were good accepted and safe treatments available. [……..] this kind of suppression is unprecedented. I’ve never seen it ever before.

Dr. Byram Bridle on 17th June 2021

Unknown Host: Followup?

Rachel Emanuel: My followup question is for Derek Sloan….um, the doctors who spoke here today mentioned that not many people in their fields are willing or able to stand up because of repercussions like being slandered or losing their jobs. Um, as we all know, you lost your seat in the conservative party, um, because of your willingness to speak out and be Frank on issues. And you’re also one of the few MPs who’ve been critical of the government’s COVID policies. If you lose your seat in the government in the next election, do you think there will still be a voice within the federal government for free speech?

Derek Sloan: Well, uh, it it’s true that the, the party system has hijacked democracy in the sense that individual MPS are not able to express her opinions. They, they could, but the, uh, the implications of they could and should, but the implications of doing that are, are clear to see. And it’s very unfortunate. And I hope that the public wakes up and sees what’s going on and demands that their local representatives actually represent them. And not just whatever the leader of whatever party they’re involved in, uh, wants to say.

Unknown Host: Operator, do we have a next question?

Operator: Thank You. Merci. [French]. …..There are no further question registered at this time….I would not like to return to the meeting.

Unknown Host: This concludes the Press Conference [French].

Updates

• This article contains additional email exchanges of Dr. Byram Bridle with Dryburgh.com, in which he counters some contentions put forward by Dr. Rhonda Patrick in her monthly members-only Q&A which covered “misinformation on COVID-19 and mRNA vaccines.”
• On 19^th July 2021, Derek Sloan’s Twitter was suspended!
• “A member of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table has resigned from his position, alleging politics appear to be influencing public health recommendations and claiming the group is sitting on modelling data that “projects a grim fall. Dr. David Fisman, an epidemiologist at University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, announced his resignation from the table publicly on Monday by posting his notification letter to social media.” (Source)